If you love your opinion so much that a threat to it feels like a threat to you, that's an emotional element that doesn't belong to clear thinking. Find the source of that and reason your way through it.
                                                            - mwk

"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."
                                                              Bene Gesserite Litany Against Fear - Dune