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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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Other people's opinions do not deserve respect simply because they are other people's opinions, CMV.

Maybe it's just me, but I come across hearing viewpoint a lot: that everyone has their own opinions/views, and you should respect that. 

I'm sorry, no. I cannot respect someone right to hold on to an obviously faulty worldview, especially one grounded in next to nothing.

Take for instance: a young earth creationist. There is no good reason for this mindset. There is no valid logical pathway to this belief. So why should I respect someone right to have it? This person's knowledge lacks justification, they are being epistemologically lazy and willfully ignorant in keeping it. 

If someone told me they were abducted (sans evidence), they have no right have that claim respected. If someone says that a god created the universe, and breathed them into life, they're basis of belief is as questionable as the abductee. 

I'm trying to be serious. I think that this is a cult of tolerance that only leads to a society that accepts stupid mindsets and cultivates even less intellectually sound peoples. 

*Edit:*

there was some confusion because of how I worded things. Yes everyone has the capacity to have whatever opinion/thought/belief they have. "Entitled" is the word. What I mean to say, in crass terms, is that if your opinion is not sound, it should be ignored in the public dialogue. Yes, you can possess it, but is as an augment is valueless and a waste of time to consider.
gpt
It's not that they have a right to have their opinion respected. It's that you should have some baseline level of respect for all human beings. If someone espouses an opinion that you think is ridiculous, you're allowed to think that, to voice that, and to try to convince them they are wrong. But you're supposed to keep in mind that they are a real human, with the same depth as you have, and that they really believe that. 

People really easily categorize into "us" and "them". People that belong to "them" are not worthy of being treated like a human being.  The idea behind "all opinions deserve respect" is to give you pause, to stop you from saying "oh, you're one of THEM" and deciding that person is not worth listening to or respecting.