From: lessgovt@gmail.com   
      
   I'm entitled to my opinion (or I have a right to my opinion) is an informal   
   fallacy in which someone dismisses arguments against their position by   
   claiming that they have a right to hold their own particular viewpoint. The   
   statement exemplifies a red    
   herring or thought-terminating cliché. The fallacy is sometimes presented as   
   "let's agree to disagree". Whether one has a particular entitlement or right   
   is irrelevant to whether one's assertion is true or false. Where an objection   
   to a belief is made,    
   the assertion of the right to an opinion side-steps the usual steps of   
   discourse of either asserting a justification of that belief, or an argument   
   against the validity of the objection. Such an assertion, however, can also be   
   an assertion of one's own    
   freedom from, or a refusal to participate in, the rules of argumentation and   
   logic at hand.   
      
   Philosopher Patrick Stokes has described the expression as problematic because   
   it is often used to defend factually indefensible positions or to imply "an   
   equal right to be heard on a matter in which only one of the two parties has   
   the relevant expertise"   
   . Further elaborating on Stokes' argument, philosopher David Godden argued   
   that the claim that one is entitled to a view gives rise to certain   
   obligations, such as the obligation to provide reasons for the view and to   
   submit those reasons to contestation;   
    Godden called these the principles of rational entitlement and rational   
   responsibility, and he developed a classroom exercise for teaching these   
   principles.   
      
   Philosopher José Ortega y Gasset wrote in his 1930 book The Revolt of the   
   Masses:   
      
   "The Fascist and Syndicalist species were characterized by the first   
   appearance of a type of man who "did not care to give reasons or even to be   
   right", but who was simply resolved to impose his opinions. That was the   
   novelty: the right not to be right,    
   not to be reasonable: 'the reason of unreason.'"   
      
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m_entitled_to_my_opinion   
      
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