For the most part I couldn’t care less, but sometimes with a book/movie/album I love, when someone says they didn’t like it I get … frustrated? HOW CAN THEY POSSIBLY NOT SEE THE BRILLIANCE?! Obviously there’s no point in trying to convince someone to like something they don’t like, but I have to make a conscious effort to just acknowledge other opinions and move on with my life.
No. You can have your own opinions (Bob Dylan writes terrible lyrics and did not deserve to win a Nobel Prize). You cannot have your own facts (Bob Dylan won a Nobel Prize for his lyrics).
Only when their opinion is to recommend human lives be put in danger.
The best example I can think of are the opinions of the anti-vaxxers.
Only when it affects me. Like opinions against health care reform or to do nothing about climate change.
Or when it’s unjust and affects others. But that’s pretty vague. I don’t like it when people oppress gays, but I’m sure those same people don’t like it when I support abortion rights.
As long as nobody suffers I don’t care.
Depends on the stakes, but pretty much when it’s unjust to to others.
I’ve seen over the years/decades message forum debates on economic policy that enraged me, but the “enrager” seemed to be not especially passionate, but by the numbers…though with some subtle overtones of disdain for the working class.
Basically it boiled down to this:
If “my side” were to “win” ( our ideas put to policy ), the other side’s already huge gains would be just slightly less solidified. They would suffer no net loss.
If “their side” were to “win” ( more correctly, continue to win ), our side would be utterly destroyed through the eventual loss of our livelihoods.
It depends on the subject. If someone says, “I don’t like football,” or “I don’t like Star Trek,” it makes absolutely no difference to me. (I don’t like football, either)
I have far less patience for matters of morality. If someone’s ‘opinion’ is their support of harmful policies, environmental destruction, or a willingness to champion people who are demonstrably liars and thieves. If someone’s ‘opinion’ is that white supremacists are a fine bunch of folks or that Putin is a great guy, I’m definitely going to have a problem with that.
Frankly, yes.
Or like, when you find out someone likes one of your favorite bands, and you get exicted, but then they like the WRONG albums. “You have ears, right???”
It is a problem for me 
I generally have no problem when people have opinions different from mine. What bugs be are the ad hominem attacks. I buy a particular brand of crunchy, unsweetened peanut butter. The total ingredients list is “peanuts, salt” and I have received death threats from people who disagree with my selection. If you want to have and express negative opinions regarding me and my choices, fine, that’s your business. If you expect me to give the slightest XXXX about your opinions then a bit of respect and common courtesy would be a good place to start. Then you need to back it up with a plausible explanation of how my choices have caused harm. If you can’t be bothered to do that, don’t be surprised when I ignore you.
Do other peoples’ opinions make you mad?
Only when they’re stupid.
So, yes.
On matters of taste, no.
So, if your favorite color is orange, well, you’re wrong. And I will never, ever ask you your opinion on aesthetics because your preferences are incorrectly calibrated. But it doesn’t make me mad. Just kind of sorry for you.
Never. I assume that most people are morons. And I have to forgive them for their moronic opinions. To do anything else would require me to be in a constant state of outrage, and I can’t afford that.
I can live with people having differing opinions; even ones I consider stupid. Now expect me to adopt some opinion, or force it on others, and you may just piss me off.
Nah. When someone’s opinions match mine I consider them benign. When someone’s opinions are different from mine I find them fascinating and want to [del]subscribe to their newsletter[/del] learn why they believe what they do–because one of us has a fact or two wrong.
Absolutely. Even about trivia. Refuse to agree that Casablanca is one of the greatest movies ever, and I’ll start screaming. (And I’m not the only one. I mentioned in Cafe Society that, rewatching it almost 50 years later, I found 2001 Space Odyssey insufferably tedious and I was treated like a moron who only likes car-chase films.) Offer a faulty opinion in a random thread on historical linguistics and I may have to pop a pill to control my blood pressure.
And that’s my reaction to faulty opinions on trivia and irrelevancies! Faulty opinions on current affairs? Please, people: Have mercy on my weak heart and use Spoiler boxes when you’re offering faulty opinions on American politics!
That’s what I was thinking, in a manner of speaking.
Basically if it’s something that you can actually have a real opinion about, then no I’m not angered by them. That’s in the very nature of opinions- they’re about things that can’t be proven or that exist only in conjecture. Like saying that beer is better than wine. Can’t really argue that- it’s totally a matter of taste.
But if it’s something factual that you’re claiming to have an opinion about, and it’s wrong, that tends to anger me. Like for example someone stating their “opinion” that vaccines cause autism. First, that’s not an opinion, and second, it’s wrong.
Another area that tends to tick me off is when people try to back up opinions with actual facts- like people who claim that one thing is better than another because sales numbers “prove” it. No, that just proves more people buy it, or even prefer it. That doesn’t make it “better” though, just more popular.
Politics and religion are special cases; they tend to combine the worst of the last two examples- they KNOW that what they’re saying is right, and then go to absurd lengths to “prove” it, when in fact, neither is provable or necessarily right/wrong. And both tend to involve a pretty healthy dose of groupthink- you can’t be a Christian and think Jesus was mythical, for example. And political parties tend to have similar dogmatic positions on things- there’s not much room in the GOP for believing in single-payer health care for example.
I think it’s less about their opinions and more how they express them that bothers me. I don’t care one bit about anyone else’s diet but if your thing is posting animal torture videos to show how horrible the meat industry is I’m gonna be annoyed. On the other hand if someone mentions being a vegetarian or vegan and your response is to immediately post images of dead animals on a plate and express your undying love for pork products I’m gonna be just as annoyed.
My best friend is so deep in the Oprah woo I think she tends to annoy other people with her reiki recommendations and gut healing tales from her chiropractor but it doesn’t bother me so much because it seems to bring her comfort and she needs that. It’s the same with religion. I don’t care what your religion is as long as part of it isn’t shaming my kid for being different. I have one relative who thinks it’s because I’m atheist that my child is openly trans now. She tells me this. She tries to shame both of us. So that really pisses me off and makes me want to avoid her.
Unfortunately, yes, and I wish I knew how to overcome it.
It bothers me to no end that people (for example, Mrs. Homie) think degrading trash TV like Dr. Phil is worth their attention. I can’t stand the fact that neither the American League’s management, nor its fans, realize that the Designated Hitter rule is an abomination that makes a mockery of the game. This time of year I’m driven half-mad by the fact that the NCAA, and the TV networks, continue to perpetuate this illusion that a handful of single post-season games, half of which are between mediocre teams and are played in three-quarters-empty stadiums, are the right way to end the college football season. Others think Pete Rose is rightfully being kept out of the Hall of Fame. Others think it’s perfectly OK to cook with margarine instead of butter. The list goes on.
By all rights, there is no reason for me to take these things so personally. But God DAMN. My opinions are so glaringly-obviously correct, well-reasoned and insightful, it sticks in my craw that everyone else can’t see it.
As long as their opinions are factual, I’m usually OK with them. If not, then not.
I frequently feel like this.
Mad? Not really. Disappointed and disgusted are more common.