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Claiming your opinion is fact does not make it fact.

Plenty of people would claim it’s a fact that humans have rights.



I think that the difference between fact and opinion is the strength of your defense.


If two people are making exactly the same claim, and one has a strong defense and the other has a weak defense, is that claim a fact or opinion?


Fact. Because we would consider both defenses. The sum of them.




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