This post is for the benefit of all Bullboard members. It’s not in reply to any one particular responder in the thread started by the leodevo.
“The first casualty when war comes is truth.”
o·pin·ion (e-pn¹yen) noun
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A belief or conclusion held with confidence but not substantiated by positive knowledge or proof: "The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion" (Elizabeth Drew).
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A judgment based on special knowledge and given by an expert: a medical opinion.
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A judgment or an estimation of the merit of a person or thing: has a low opinion of braggarts.
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The prevailing view: public opinion.
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Law. A formal statement by a court or other adjudicative body of the legal reasons and principles for the conclusions of the court.
[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin opnio, opnion-.]
A deliberately false opinion is one given without a belief or conclusion with false substantiation by: - a provocative person (e.g., one who has a Antisocial Personality Disorder as defined by a Dr. Glenn Berger, PhD, Psychotherapist, LCSW, regarding Donald Trump Has an Antisocial Personality Disorder according to specific criteria: (a) lying, deception, manipulation, and exploitation; (b) impulsivity; (c) irritability and aggression; (d) irresponsibility; (e) lack of remorse), or
- an agent provocateur (i.e., A person who secretly disrupts a group's activities from within the group; an instigator, troublemaker.) See agent provocateur from Wiktionary, The free dictionary.