Michael, you assert an opinion as if it is absolute truth, with no proof or arguments to back your position. That is something akin to a gratuitous assertion. Under standard rules of debate, a gratuitous assertion can be just as gratuitously denied. I deny your assertion that all opinions are just as valid as others. For example: I don't find the opinions of those that condone sex with children to have the same validity as those opinions against it. I do not believe that the opinions of Adolf Hitler, with regard to the attempted genocide of the Jews to have the same validity, as say the opinions of Ghandi.

It sounded nice. It just isn't valid.

That is what I was attempting to say.

Mick