My Opinion is Better Than Yours

My name is Eitan Pinsky and my opinion really isn’t better than yours. You could even say that we can’t classify opinions at all and that no opinion is better than anyone else’s. However, I wholeheartedly dissagree with this statement because when you get down to the root of what an opinion is, it can be anything from which peanut butter brand tastes better (preference) or that all Liberals (Canadian political party) are crooks (belief). Opinions are made up of beliefs and preferences and of faith and through knowledge of a great many things or through ignorance of a great many things.  By being more informed, more open to knowledge and information that could dissagree with your built in views, and by looking at all sides of a problem, one could say that this person has a better view and well articulated opinion.

It is very easy to point out times where one’s views have been bad to say the least. In the Western World, where we have free press, democracies and the ability to live side by side with other cultures and religions, have expanded our outlook and agreed that some views and some opinions are WRONG. Relative to the Western World and the great majority of our population I can show you why some opinions or views ARE better than other’s.

Take for example World War II Germany. We had a great many people who in that day would kill Jews, Gypsys, Gays, Blacks and anybody else who infected the percieved “perfect” Aryan bloodline. We can say, today, that this opinion and view is evil, immoral and disgusting. Unequivocally, this view is WRONG because it does not fit with what our society believes in. We believe in equality and dialouge before conflict. We (should) believe that people are innocent until proven guilty and a many more great values that we take for granted. However, A lot of people in this world have views that, to me, should be contested. People who still are anti-semetic (and there are a growing number of them) have this negative WRONG view. People who think chopping off a man’s hand for stealing a piece of bread! are WRONG and should be educated to have better values (as a point to this, you can argue that this is Part of the Muslim religion and “how dare you say that this religion is wrong,” but I say that these values are outdated and barbaric. It says in the Torah to slaughter animals and burn them for G-D but do we do this today?…) Where would the Western World be if they did not allow dialogue and discourse for proper conduct and views?

I believe that, as an informed and knowledgeable university student, my views and opinions might just be a little more “right” than the person who does not wish to enlighten themselves with the proper information. My goal is to influence people’s opinions and thoughts through speaking my mind in person, in paper and on the web.

---

Possibly related posts: (automatically generated)

• ’Fat Little Girlfriends,’ a Leach Reader
• Making Capitalism More Creative

Explore posts in the same categories: Speaking my Mind