Okay I get it now...

The situation is actually worse than you've described it.

Even if you provide evidence from credible sources, some people will refuse to accept it because it's not what they want to believe. They'll deride your sources as "fake news" or too biased to be of any value. Trying to have a discussion with people like this is a complete waste of time.

When discussing topics you should be able to back up why you believe something and when being called out for lying (like your example what supposedly happens in schools) you would need to be able to back claims up otherwise it's an opinion based on lies and false information.

Of course when someone says they don't like tea or something that's a pure subjective thing but when discussing society, politics, medicine... facts and data are important.

Imagine people going around lying and then excusing it with it being just an "opinion".
Why you believe something matters too.

There are a lot of people who feel threatened when they perceive their world view being challenged. This fear manifests itself as hostility and tempers start to rise. These sort of people tend to be very slow at learning new things.

What Mr. Rutter said.

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Huh? So your complaint here is that people won't believe you if you don't back your claim with evidence?

If you hadn't noticed that's how society works. Science, courts, business boards, economy, medicine, even politics (until recently).. all revolving around presenting evidence.

Only in making sweeping generalizations. Opinion or not, if what’s said is factually incorrect that must count for something.

Oh people are always asking for sources. Of course in any debate one can find "evidence" supporting either side.

I mean sweet Jesus's scrotum, people get on here and act like it is some kind of legal battle and "evidence" is needed for everything.

It's like they forget that we are all here just to entertain each other whether we agree or not on certain thngs.

Too bad the pandemic is not still going, someone could get on here and claim that LGBT groups are against covid vaccinations, OH IMAGINE what would hit the fan!

Asking for evidence, cussing, shouting, graphs, statistics, I mean it would be THE biggest sh*t show in SW history 🤣

That applies when discussing politics. It’s designed to weed out the baseless conspiracy comments.

Or they accuse you of being an "alt account". 😂

Yup, pretty much 😂

Yup

That one [b]boo[/b]b, that is all he knows. His rebuttal to everything true is "source?". 🤣 Then when you give it to him he accuses bias.

You have to be armed with evidence to prove your claims about facts, not opinions.

welcome to SW