Kemp indicates there is a large distinction between holding an opinion and enforcing an opinion as policy. A person's well being, however, is just as easily injured by opinion as by policy. Laws maintain personal freedoms with social enforcement, but there also exist valuable freedoms and rights, which are enforced by public opinion rather than social law. The ongoing history of the civil rights movement, for example, demonstrates what little use law is without the public precedent of anti-racist opinion. No one should be made to recant viewpoints to which they earnestly adhere, but this does not imply an automatically easy conscience regarding personal beliefs.
Individuals have a social responsibility to make their opinions informed, accurate and humane.
To believe them not because they can, but because they think they are correct. Understanding opinions as apolitical entities in need of little to no justification denigrates the very stuff of intelligible discourse to the status of irrelevant fictions.