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Originally Posted by nik-
Wow. What a load of absolute ####. There are a lot of things where the majority opinion is the correct opinion. Sometimes a lot of people agree on something because it's right. Not applying it to this specifically, but those quotes are ####ing stupid.
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Neither quote suggests anything different. The quotes cannot be stupid, they're quotes, and if you're inferring the men who said them are stupid, you're mistaken.
The first quote concerns itself with the idea that the minority carries with it truth (not that the majority doesn't, nor that the truth is worth value), and that it takes real thought and a tangible opinion to join the minority, while the status quo requires neither of those things (but does not exclude them).
Both quotes suggest that being part of the majority does not require critical thought, but certainly shouldn't absolve someone from refusing to engage in it.