If I were afraid to voice unpopular opinions I certainly wouldn’t post on this message board. 
“Opinion is really the lowest form of human knowledge. It requires no accountability, no understanding. The highest form of knowledge… is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another’s world. It requires profound purpose larger than the self kind of understanding.”
― Bill Bullard
I don’t give my or anyone else’s opinions much attention. It is by your actions that I judge you.
This includes the action of airing your opinions at inappropriate times or self-serving reasons.
Mostly I’m proud to be different.
However, I also recognize that I want to have real conversations with people and so I’m often served better by sticking to things that we can agree on rather than constantly bringing up what we don’t agree with.
Politics is a good example. If I’m in the same room as someone who has a totally different view of politics, my usual strategy is to find some common ground.
I don’t see how either question (the one in the title and the one in the OP are completely different questions) is so “self obvious.” How is expressing or not expressing an unpopular opinion “allowing society to obliterate your identity”?
Hopefully, as long as I am not popular, no one will.
But every popular person online, or offline has to put up with negative attention.
It is about a person being forced to follow society’s value and break their identity.
How are you being “forced” to do anything? Or is this about how “society” expects you to provide for yourself?
You seem overly concerned with becoming popular. Why?
The price of fame.
I am a natural born writer.
I think you wish someone would stalk you because you clearly crave attention.
NO!
I crave positive and some negative attention but not such attention.
Larry Flynt offended tens of millions of people and became Rich and Famous. But just one maniac destroyed his life and almost killed him.
You keep saying that, and yet the only “books” you claim to have written are simply compilations of your message board postings. I think it’s safe to say that no one is clamoring to read those books.
Really? What have you written/published? Win any literary awards? Got an agent? Received any book deals?
Don’t forget all the Big Chief writing tablets in his room.
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Negative attention is not the same thing as stalking.
I selected - Not Much - which I assume means not very afraid to voice unpopular opinions.
I’m not sure how being afraid to voice unpopular opinions could obliterate your identity? What identity? Being known as the quite guy? The guy that seems to agree with everyone else? If someone is afraid to make their opinions known to others, do they even have an identity as far as others are concerned? ![]()
Sadly many celebrities or even semi – celebrities do get stalked. Fortunately for me, I do not have hundreds of thousands of readers.
My parents may have been right when they chose STEM for me – they understood that being a famous writer is dangerous.
For many people their opinion is part of their identity.
Does this ever happen?