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user-inactivated  ·  3409 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: No, It’s Not Your Opinion. You’re Just Wrong

It's kind of weird, the transition between two ways of phrasing:

"It's merely my opinion"

    Used in rational discourse with another, to make it clear you are not stating it as absolute truth, a more polite way to handle potential conflict, a healthy way to trade ideas

"My opinion is..."

    I believe it, it's right, if you disagree, you're wrong

Language can be strange sometimes. Even stranger when mixed with socioeconomics and mass psychology phenomena.