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<blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 7354584" data-attributes="member: 82106">No, you DISAGREED with him, that's nothing like correcting someone. And when you 'correct' people by telling them that your opinion is facts and they need to accept it as such, particularly without concrete evidence of such (and in the case of things that are matters of aesthetics/taste there are NEVER facts) its simply being a git. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but your not entitled your own personal opinion being given the status of 'fact' just because you like it. Now, sometimes people make statements without saying one way or the other how they consider it, but its better to assume they're willing to grant everyone else their own tastes and opinions unless otherwise stated. That just facilitates discussion and means disputes will only happen when someone actually IS a jerk, and not when they simply don't like your way of doing things so much and voice some criticism of it (and I mean criticism in its most neutral way, to point out the flaws in a thing, not 'to condemn it').</blockquote>

[QUOTE="AbdulAlhazred, post: 7354584, member: 82106"] No, you DISAGREED with him, that's nothing like correcting someone. And when you 'correct' people by telling them that your opinion is facts and they need to accept it as such, particularly without concrete evidence of such (and in the case of things that are matters of aesthetics/taste there are NEVER facts) its simply being a git. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but your not entitled your own personal opinion being given the status of 'fact' just because you like it. Now, sometimes people make statements without saying one way or the other how they consider it, but its better to assume they're willing to grant everyone else their own tastes and opinions unless otherwise stated. That just facilitates discussion and means disputes will only happen when someone actually IS a jerk, and not when they simply don't like your way of doing things so much and voice some criticism of it (and I mean criticism in its most neutral way, to point out the flaws in a thing, not 'to condemn it'). [/QUOTE]

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