Since when is giving an opinion making oneself an "arbiter"?
Perhaps if your opinions were not bolted so tightly to criticism of others, you might find that you get more civil discussion back in return.
That's just an opinion too, one I've argued does NOT convey respect for human beings, but you pronounce it as dogma.
You did not argue it so much as you announced it.
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846)
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. Galileo Galilei
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. Frederick Douglass
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