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You can have objective elements help formulate and inform an opinion, but subjectivity is the very thing that makes it an opinion and not a fact.No they arent. You can have an opinion based on fact that has nothing to do with how you personally view the situation. Here I'll give you an example:
There's a guy who lives on my block who hates that the kids in the cul-de-sac ride electric bikes and scooters. So he started taking video of it, he said to show the police. My wife said "he shouldn't be taking videos of our kids." I told her there's nothing legally wrong with it. My objective opinion is that it's not a practice necessitating involving law enforcement. The fact is, it's not against the law and that overrides my personal feelings...my wife had a problem with the statement "there's nothing wrong with it."
What I did do was encourage my older Son to stand across the street and take video of him whenever he's outside, because turnabout is fair play.
That’s the whole point of opinions.