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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2011-08-08 08:05 pm

[ SECRET POST #1679 ]

⌈ Secret Post #1679 ⌋


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Notes:

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Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 1 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - hit/ship/spiration ], [ 0 - omgiknowthem ], [ 0 - take it to comments ], [ 0 - repeats ]
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(Anonymous) 2011-08-09 04:13 am (UTC)(link)
As others have said "A fact that is true for me but only me" is not a fact at all, it's an OPINION. Facts only count as facts if they can be proven objectively true for everyone.

"Jesus is the son of God" = not a fact.

"The Himalayas are slowly rising as the friction between two tectonic plates pushes them upwards" = a fact. (or at least until some serious empirical research we can't even imagine yet proves it wrong.)

"James Joyce was a great writer" = not a fact.

"James Joyce was a terrible overrated writer" = also not a fact.


Anyone's opinion of any book can never be a fact, no matter how emphatically expressed or how many degrees they have. And anyone putting a negative opinion of anything out there will probably have to deal with disagreement. An opinion might be very deeply held, but under no circumstances is it so "sacred" that disagreement should be shut down.

tl;dr: in short: "I think Good Omens is stupid" isn't an 'individual fact' because there's no such thing. It's an opinion, and a perfectly valid one.

"I think anyone who thinks Good Omens is stupid is themselves stupid" is, as above, an opinion--and an equally valid one.

Same applies to any work, any time.