No, no, no, no.
Noone has a right to an opinion, because an opinion can be mistaken, and if you had a right to it, it'd be wrong to point that out and try to correct it.

There is a denialist movement, and it does have similarities to holocaust denial and any number of other fringe movements. I don't know if you're a part of it or if you subscribe to it, but if you are, and if you object to having that pointed out, tough.

Opinions are not worthy of respect. People, perhaps, are. But you don't respect a person by pandering to their petulance.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Wed 2 Dec 2009, 12:51, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

I do have a right to my opinion
in that I can't be prosecuted for it. However, I guess you have a right to insult it - I just don't like being compared with holocaust deniers - that is just ridiculous, and to my mind dangerously dogmatic. Legislation could soon be put through to prosecute anyone who doesn't conform with green iniatives, something I don't like the sound of.

I get my political info from www.spiked-online.com, who can argue the "denial" case more eloquently than I can. I used to get all excited and argue the case for climate change years ago when it was laregly ignored. Then I fell in with a group of pilots, through a very good friend, who flys the airbus around europe. They pointed me in the direction of some info, and I was suddenly confused about the issue. Then I found Spiked and decided there are much more important things to worry about, expecially when half the world can't afford to care about it.

I'm not part of any movement, and wouldn't like to be because I am nowhere near to being a scientist and therefore cannot properly comment. But I don't feel the least bit guilty about my personal "denier" stance.
(raymond "three griddle pans" luxury yacht lovin' the christmas action, Wed 2 Dec 2009, 13:14, Reply)

Enzyme isn't a scientist either.

( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Wed 2 Dec 2009, 13:27, Reply)

And the importance of that is what, precisely?
(Elaboration edit: The fact that I'm not a scientist doesn't prevent me from being at least scientifically literate; you don't have to be doing the research to understand it in reasonable terms. Moreover, "scientist" is a very wide term; if I'm disqualified from commenting because I'm not a climatologist, you're disqualified for precisely the same reason.)
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Wed 2 Dec 2009, 13:35, Reply)

he said
"I am nowhere near to being a scientist and therefore cannot comment properly". I implied that you aren't a scientist but it hasn't stopped you from telling everyone the true facts that you found on the Internet.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Wed 2 Dec 2009, 13:43, Reply)

Ahhh - concentrating on the source rather than the content.
Well done you.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Wed 2 Dec 2009, 15:23, Reply)

I imagine people might be more inclined to listen to you
if you were less pompous.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Wed 2 Dec 2009, 15:29, Reply)

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awesome
(raymond "three griddle pans" luxury yacht lovin' the christmas action, Wed 2 Dec 2009, 22:15, Reply)