Opinion: Expression of disbelief from The Big Lebowski’s “That’s just… like… your opinion, man.” Declaring a point of view as just an opinion is useful when you’re too lazy to find a rebuttal, or you want to calm down a discussion, or because the opinion holder is deemed so misguided that it isn’t worth presenting a counter argument. Also used to counter someone who gets overly excited about their point of view, or to remind others that core beliefs are not founded in science but Metaphysics. Previously, working at iA required knowing The Big Lebowski by heart due to it being quoted so often on any given day.