Opinion (Mar. 29)

It seems recently that many people are enjoying the confusion between an opinion and fact. In many cases there is a great deal of truth being told with a little bit of opinion making things sound well and good but in reality making the entire statement nothing more than opinion. Truth, in brief, is something that must exist and must exist independent of perspective and opinion. Truth is not relative and depends on nothing but itself. Opinion on the other hand is something that relies completely on perspective. It is possible for an opinion to be true given that this opinion is made up completely of truthful facts. For instance one could have an opinion that the earth revolves around the sun. Based on the evidence gathered the world of academia would tell you that this opinion is true. The easiest place to see the blurred distinction is in politics where one could state the facts of what a bill says but then just as quickly tell you what that bill is going to do. The reality being that we do not know what the bill is actually going to do. And if you only tell us the good parts of what the bill says or is theoretically going to do there is still a good deal of information left out.