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There are a million truths not just one.. what may be true for one person, may not be true for another.. and what may be true today for one person, may not be true tomorrow for that same person.. so truth is never just black or white..

Facts on the other hand are black and white, right or wrong.. where confusion arises though is when people think that opinion is fact, or where facts are made up/altered/manipulated...

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Abstraction · 61-69, M

Here you mean by 'truths' our perception of reality.
And by 'facts', reality as it is. (I'm translating this for my own purposes.)

The challenge with 'truths' is that even our perception of simple facts is just a useful approximation - often completely workable.
But when we scale up an entire set of perceptions, generalisations, some beliefs, coupled with cognitive errors such as logical erros, confirmation bias, subconscious prejudices - we end up with pointless and sometimes nasty bun fights on SW.

The other challenge:
Everyone is entitled to an opinion. But opinions aren't all equal. There are two types of opinions:
1. Non-verifiable - I don't like the purple carpet. No-one can argue, they can only have their own opinion. Here opinions are equal.
2. Verifiable - An opinion that covid-19 is not real and is part of a conspiracy by the Deep State, with no evidence at all to support it - is NOT equal to those who support the perspective of medical science.

Adaydreambeliever · 56-60, F

@Abstraction That's a pretty accurate way of summing it up!