Yeah, but that's just your equally-valid opinion.
Frankly I think it's a philosophical question that doesn't really matter. It doesn't do me any good to get twisted up over somebody's opinion. And proselytizing them to my opinion is not the answer because their opinion comes from their level of conscious development. The only way to elevate their opinion is to help them elevate their consciousness.
How do you do that? Well, that's why the question of validity isn't worth the time. The question of how is hard enough.
But that doesn't mean that it doesn't suck that there are still hurtful opinions in the wild. Hopefully someday the collective will develop beyond that and they will disappear.