[DemolitionRed]

There is nothing wrong with stating an opinion or belief so long as the person posting it excepts it as testable. When a poster on here recently started a thread about transgenderism, it was obvious from the very first post that it was an opinion backed up with logical support. She didn't get angry when people strongly debated her values and so what happened there was, the thread went on for numerous days with reasonable and intellectual dialogue.

When someone posts half-baked misguided opinion's or show a negative attitude or intolerance towards certain kinds of people and when those opinions are delivered without logical support or insufficient reasoning, and come with a strong tone of prejudice; its going to be open to scrutiny. Because its an opinion and not a fact, that scrutiny is going to be at a personal level. Values are bound to be questioned and facts are going to be delivered in an attempt to change that persons thought process. If that person refuses to listen to facts and continues to deliver the same rhetoric, then inevitably people will form their own opinions of that poster and they may not be pleasant ones.