Age Has Nothing to do With the Validity of Opinoins - Comments

@ Deus Ex Machina
Haha, yeah. Pretty shitty.

@ atlas;
Neat. Welcome to Orwellian Mibba, by the way.

@ Deus Ex Machina
It's wasn't just you, and I was going to, but it would be considered public ridicule and I'd get banned. (The user vulcan; got banned for "publicly ridiculing" drumonster. on how she got Jamie banned because he told her to leave him alone and she got offended.)

You could at least mention my name in the blog and call me out instead of posting this behind my back. Jeez.

colour me perfect.:

Maybe your knowledge is valid but opinion can't simply be held up by scientific evidence. I'm sure that you and your friend are intelligent but life experience is a key factor in forming opinions about the world.

This. Sure a fourteen year old can have an opinion on say, paying bills and rent, going to college, starting a family and things like that but I'm not going to think it's a valid opinion because chances are, they haven't experienced it. It's not just about age, it's about experience.

Maybe your knowledge is valid but opinion can't simply be held up by scientific evidence. I'm sure that you and your friend are intelligent but life experience is a key factor in forming opinions about the world.

Age doesn't affect an opinion's validity (insofar that it doesn't count as an opinion), it affects how the opinion is formed, and that makes all the difference.

I agree with whimsy. it doesn't matter where you come from or how old you are, a lot of the time maturity does come into factor with opinions. But it is mostly age as well, respecting your elders, and if you can't respect your elder while forming an opinion society does look down on you.

Society sees that elder person as more wiser, and you're just a kid who hasn't gone through the same experience. That being said, all experiences are different, but that's why age plays a major role with opinions because we're so young and, sometimes mentally underdeveloped, that we're overruled simply because we're not old enough.

I believe overall though, that it's experience =/= age = opinions.

I disagree. Certain opinions of a young person are valid. But quite a lot aren't. It's why you can't drink, drive, have sex, join the army, vote, get married, etc. I know that when I was fourteen I was in that phase where I wanted to be taken seriously and I thought that I had some solid arguments behind me, but overtime my opinions and values changed. They still are changing, and I'm only 20.

@ atlas;
Correct, but the point is, you aren't going to convince society that. If you try to make your point by saying "x is fucking y because fucking z", the average person is going to think your are uneducated and immature and that your opinion, whatever it may be, comes from an uneducated and immature mind.

@ whimsy.
Yeah, but age doesn't directly effect maturity, and, in my opinion, neither does what language you use (though I suspect you were just speaking from how society will handle it). Maturity correlates with age, but it correlation doesn't provide causation, scientifically speaking.

I have mixed feelings about this because while yes, you being fourteen or twenty-four doesn't make your opinion more or less valid, your maturity and how you handle express those opinions does affect how people will receive your opinions and you as a person. For instance, if you make every other word in your opinion "fuck," people are going to think you and your opinion are childish and immature and no, they aren't going to consider it a valid opinion (this of course is the general, universal "you"). I mean, this sucks, don't get me wrong. I love to drop the f-bomb, but that's the way society works and unfortunately, sometimes we just have to deal with it. You have to pick your battles and it's easier to just watch your mouth and speak politely than it is to teach an entire society that "fuck" is just a word. This goes with other things like tone, vocabulary, and fluidity of speech as well.

@ gatsby;
You're not patronizing! And I understand. Most of the time when I state my opinions I don't state is as aggressively as I did in this blog, but I felt like this shouldn't even need to be said and a lot of people need to get it through your head. And yes, age can have an effect to a degree (i.e., 3 year olds can't form a valid opinion lol), but when it get's to my age and I'm a freshman in high school, I shouldn't be degraded and told that my opinion doesn't matter because of my age. If I'm old enough to drive, I'm old enough to debate you and get respect.

Age matters when it comes to opinions. Everyone has opinions. That's a super dope thing about the human. Opinions are our creations, opinions make us individuals.

Facts, however, are universal, and the way one displays these facts in argument (i.e. maturity) is the determination of people's tolerance.

If you present all of your arguments like this blog, I can see how people could get angry and become hostile with you. Sometimes, sugarcoat is needed in the beginning so the person warms up to what you're saying. I have problems with this too: I'm a fiery fifteen year old who probably shouldn't say half of the things she does (including this post, I'll most likely be banned for it).

It has been said, "The worst thing a person can do is take himself seriously." There's so much truth in this statement. Know when to fight and know when to let things blow over. I get that this is a rant and I have no right to write this long, almost patronizing comment, but, it is late and I feel like throwing my own two cents in the plate.

What I'm getting at is: respect authority, be nice to all, and be mature and level-headed. Life is easier and much more pleasant. Plus, you always come out on the high road when you do the right thing. From someone who's been on both sides of the fence, it's just a word of advice.

And I feel like a huge patronizing dick so /end comment

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