[wadd1e]

I think you and the person you're replying to just have different ideas of what you mean by "people". I think they'd be right in saying you can't speak absolutes and get away with it in a group of curious and non-impressionable people who will challenge what you have to say and will try to understand your POV too, but you're also right in saying there's groups of people where the same strategy will backfire.