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<p>[QUOTE="SilverSurfer, post: 917068, member: 21603"]You ask people to cut back on their debt and eliminate some of the excessive benefits that they have, and they riot in the streets. And you think these same people are just going to sit back and let some industry tag with them an implanted computer chip. Riots would be an understatement.</p><p><br /></p><p>But, fact from opinion is never an easy subject. I was taught that in school. The questions that asked I got a lot of them wrong. For instance, "the car is red." Is that a fact or opinion. Because even though a majority of people will say it is red, some color blind person might not see it that way. Once he says it's an off orange color, does that change the fact to opinion.....or is he wrong?</p><p><br /></p><p>Likewise, "a nickel is larger than a dime." While true in terms of size dimensions and weight isn't true for simply face value. So, what if someone sees the value and says, "no, the dime is larger than the nickel." Does that make it fact or opinion?</p><p><br /></p><p>There is no clear line between fact and opinion. Every fact is opinionated, and every opinion has some fact to it, even if the logic of that fact is faulty.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="SilverSurfer, post: 917068, member: 21603"]You ask people to cut back on their debt and eliminate some of the excessive benefits that they have, and they riot in the streets. And you think these same people are just going to sit back and let some industry tag with them an implanted computer chip. Riots would be an understatement. But, fact from opinion is never an easy subject. I was taught that in school. The questions that asked I got a lot of them wrong. For instance, "the car is red." Is that a fact or opinion. Because even though a majority of people will say it is red, some color blind person might not see it that way. Once he says it's an off orange color, does that change the fact to opinion.....or is he wrong? Likewise, "a nickel is larger than a dime." While true in terms of size dimensions and weight isn't true for simply face value. So, what if someone sees the value and says, "no, the dime is larger than the nickel." Does that make it fact or opinion? There is no clear line between fact and opinion. Every fact is opinionated, and every opinion has some fact to it, even if the logic of that fact is faulty.[/QUOTE]
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