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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Merlion" data-source="post: 3131570" data-attributes="member: 10397">Those arent issues of opinion, they are issues of fact. Of course its still possible for a person to hold an opinion that is contrary to fact, and that is the one case where an opinion is simply wrong, because it isnt an opinion issue. Its a fact that humans are humans regardless of skin colour etc. Anyone who believes otherwise is simply either ignorant (which I use here in the non-pejorative sense of lacking knowledge) or simply hateful (or possibly both). Just like someone who believes you can put your hand in boiling water bare and unprotected for 5 minutes and not suffer scalding is simply incorrect...because it isnt a matter of opinion, its a matter of fact.But you cannot have superior and inferior opinions about things that truly are a matter of opinion, such as art, taste in food, career prefernces and the like. (And yes I am setting aside grey areas and contested/theoritical areas/ideas that are hard to prove or disprove etc).  Some people may be better at certain things than others, yes. I'm terrible at anything relating to numbers for example...many people are far better at it than I. But that doesnt make them better people, it just makes them better at math.Now I might say that I am a "better" or at least more moral person than say a bank robber or a rapist, but even that doesnt erase their potential.  I already covered that when I mentioned that someone may be prevented from using or experiencing their potential, for various reasons. It doesnt remove the potential, and it doesnt make them an inferior person, it just means their situation prevents them from doing all that they might have.  Depends entirely on how you define great things. I have a feeling you say this because of how you define great things. No, not everyone can or will become a great author, or a military hero, or a doctor who cures cancer.But every act of kindness or compassion is a great act. And anyone can perform an act of kindness.</blockquote>

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