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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Storm Raven" data-source="post: 3130626" data-attributes="member: 307">No. Compare, for example, the opinion of a four year old concerning a movie with the opinion of a full-grown adult. Certainly the two opinions cannot be viewed as equally informed, even though the two individuals in question watched the exact same movie.As so often in this thread, you are simply wrong on this score. All opinions on all subjects are not equally valuable. Some opinions are simply more informed than others, and some are so uninformed as to be best defined as ignorant.I see that your choice of labeling informed opinions leads to your conclusion that those who are informed are "elitist", which is a silly statement to make. In point of fact, that sort of logic would force you to label virtually everyone other than yourself participating in this thread as "elitist" (and for that matter, virtually every adult who opines on artistic endeavors). At that point, the term loses meaning, since it no longer has any meaningful value. Once again, to support your argument, you choose to define words in a manner inconsistent with the accepted definition, which is a singularly unconvincing method of argument.(I note that later in the thread you refer to my citation of Sturgeon's Law as evidence for elitism. Perhaps you should look up the genesis of Sturgeon's Law. Then you might realize how woefully uninformed and, might I say, ignorant, your opinion concerning this issue truly is.)</blockquote>

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