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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Merlion" data-source="post: 3129864" data-attributes="member: 10397">I'll find you some short ones. Or I may just send you whatever, but dont feel pressured to read anything right away, just whenever you feel like it and have a spare moment. I'll distinguish the short ones from the not as short (though honestly most of my stuff is under 10 pages single spaced). yea I tend to take people litterally. But I also tend to feel that especially on messageboards, you should make an effort to be very clear about things.But mostly I've been speaking of instances, such as in the Eragon thread, where I said to someone that said it was bad that it was only bad in their opinion, and then they began to explain how its "objectively bad" etc. Which is a lot of what this all comes from, people trying to say their opinions are "right" about a work of art, either because of their special training, or because a lot of people agree with them. To me the idea of a superior opinion is just an oxymoron. Opinions are inherently subjective, and as such one is simply incapable of being "better" than the other. *Maybe* better informed. With the stuff that really matters, it usualy isnt a matter of opinion. Mostly what scares me about it is it follows that if someones opinion is inferior, they may be as well.  I think people can devalue themselves by doing horrible things, like Ted Bundy. And I believe people can fail to, or be prevented from, reaching their potential. And the potential comes in different forms...not everyone can be a virtuoso musician, or a brilliant physcists, but everyone can contribute and do great, meaningful things in their own way.  Well, I dont really believe that anyone has the right to intentionally try to be hurtful to someone. I dont even really think that you have the right to not think about other peoples feelings. But officially you do, and so we have laws and customs to punish those who dont show respect for others.</blockquote>

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