Do you believe your opinions and philosophies are 'right' so those with differing opinions or philosophies

Question

must be 'wrong'.

Answer 1

Personally yes because I am open minded and my philosophies are based on everything being equal, not harming anyone and everyone having their own choice, so how could that be wrong.

Answer 2

I think there is no clear cut right or wrong in most opinions. Which is why there are called opinions and not facts.

Answer 3

I don't believe that there are 'right' and 'wrong' opinions or philosophies.  There are differing ones certainly, and some may be diametrically opposed to mine - but that doesn't make them wrong.

Answer 4

The resources that went in to the creation of my opinions and philosophies may differ from others.  In this case, I donot believe they are wrong.

But in cases where the underlying reasons and resources that went in to the creation of the opinions and philosaphies are explicitly stated and if I have gone through those reasons and resources and formed a different opinion based on my analysis, (which can be different from others' analysis), I do regard the analysis and the resulting opinions as wrong.

Answer 5

Meh. Sometimes I do, usually about things having to do with racism and sexism. I think bigotry is always wrong, no matter who it's against, period.

Most of my other beliefs, though, are just about what's right for me, and I realize that what's right for me might not be right for someone else. With the exception of beliefs and philosophies that oppress others (as stated above), I'm pretty accepting of other people's views, no matter how different they are from my own.

Answer 6

Well it stands to reason that the philosophy that we choose to live our lives by is deemed by each of us to be superior to alternatives.

Why would I (or anyone) choose to believe or live by a set of beliefs that I knew to be inferior? Why would I hold an opinion if I *knew* it was the less sensible or desirable option. (I don't think it's possible for anyone to consciously do this - the paradox - the dissonance of it would be too uncomfortable to sustain.).

So it makes sense that each of us thinks we are "right".  I think we choose the framework that best explains our lived reality and accumulated knowledge.  Other people will choose differently because their life experience differs markedly from mine and/or because they haven't yet acquired enough accumulated knowledge to choose from a greater range of alternatives.

Answer 7

No I don't. My opinions and philosophies are formed by my subjective experiences and perceptions vs. me thinking they are ultimate capital T truth. That is why I consider myself to be a Post-Modern Feminist.

Answer 8

No I don't. It is the petty insults and ignorance of the facts that I find wrong with some of these opinions. But to each their own.

Answer 9

Almost everyone thinks their philosophies are "right" (opinions are usually more subjective). It would be a truely perverse person who knows their philosophies are wrong but refuses to change them. I don't think differing philosophies are wrong, although I do think directly opposing philosophies are. Depending on what these philosophies actually are, I am perfectly capable of remaining good friends with that person (and have done), and would (and have) changed philosophies when given good, objective and logical reasons to.

Answer 10

Up to a point. No, not with my politics religious or gender views.

However, I do believe there ARE absolutes. Spousal abuse, genital mutilation, so-called "honor killings" and s*x with children in the name of religion is wrong, full stop. Not "somebody's cultural values," but wrong.

Answer 11

I agree with Tracey-   some things are not just my opinions but they are just plain wrong!

Answer 12

Yes.

I've based my beliefs on experience, education and thought, something I dont believe many do. They accept what they've heard on TV or from friends & give no deliberation or work to figuring out their own.

If anyone offers me a logical, fact-based, experienced-based rational for their beliefs, I can change my views.

And I dont have opinions & philosophies on everything, just those that affect me & are close to my heart.

Which brings to mind a question: Are their universal beliefs & philosophies?

Answer 13

Somewhat. It depends on the matter at hand.

If I believe "X," then of course I must believe that "not X" is incorrect. If I believe abortion is murder, I believe people who claim it is not murder are wrong. This seems to be the nature of having a belief - you must disbelieve its contradiction. If I really believed that there was just as good a reason to believe the contradicting viewpoint is true as to believe my own is true, I lack any good reason to have my belief, and picking one or the other is, from a rational standpoint, arbitrary.

Of course many issues are not so clearly oppositional. I can believe that a representative democracy with a free market is a great political system without necessarily thinking that socialism, fascism, monarchies, etc. are bad and the people who believe in them "wrong."

Even for contradictory beliefs, there are better and worse ways to go about things. Even if I believe "X" (making it necessary to believe "not X" is wrong), I can still listen to the other side, consider evidence, etc. We can have beliefs that the other side is wrong without being closed-minded.

Answer 14

Yes, i believe my opinions and philosophies are good and right.  But that doesn't necessarily mean that differing opinions are wrong.  It just means they're different :-)  People are raised in different cultures and backgrounds, countries and different times and you pretty much grow up believing in the things you were taught by your parents and the culture and environement you grew up in.  That makes for many differing points of view.

Answer 15

If I never would have exchanged ideas with others I would not have the opinions that I have now.

I very much enjoy it when my reality is challenged.

I'm often wrong, but some things I've not changed my views on.

Answer 16

No. I'm a relativist.

Answer 17

"In matters of style, swim with the current;

In matters of principle, stand like a rock." - Thomas Jefferson.

Answer 18

Almost , but not entirely. I can be swayed by a good discussion of the issues or subject with some one that has a good argument with the facts that can back up his position. In some areas , his command of the known facts may exceed my own. However, when someone is debating with only his opinion to back it up even if the facts show otherwise, then I will assume that they must be wrong. There is also the debater that just (parrots ) what is some popular slogan that one side or the other uses, and I mentally dismiss their argument as being without merit.