The first teeth you get immediately after birth just like you get your first opinions from your parents and social environment. Later in life you develop your own opinions just like you lose your original teeth (called milk teeth) and develop more permanent ones that are probably gonna last you a lifetime.
Why stop at 2. Why any number. If new evidence arises on something you might change your mind any number of times.
Opinions should not be set in stone since adulthood; that’s how you get old people who are set in their ways and opposed to progression. Opinions should be open to change throughout your entire life
Opinions should be like shark teeth. Always open to replacement.
I think you should strive to change at least one opinion a day.
It’s also a healthy habit to not feel compulsed to have an opinuon on everything. I’ve made a conscious effort to only form opinions on things that I perceive to be truly important. It has saved me so much stress.
Ehh, personally I like thinking over things and forming opinions. I don’t frequently share opinions I don’t deem important, but I have 'em! Plus realizations in one area that seems small can have impacts on the opinions that are more important to you.
I feel like I should have majored in philosophy.
If you do not occasionally change your views on things even later in life based on new information, then you’re not doing very much thinking. Your thought is incomplete, we should have more than two sets of opinions.
I once had someone tell me “Ahh, everyone’s political opinions are all based on who they grew up listening to anyway!” and I did just have to ask them “Does that mean you’ve thought about none of your opinions since childhood???”
Like. No. I have a handful of opinions that haven’t changed since childhood/teenhood, and that’s just because I haven’t thought of them. Almost all of the rest of them are very different to when I was a kid.
I think most people form most of their worldview around the age of 12 to 14 years. I know I did, that is when I first learned about most of the issues I am still most passionate about nowadays. Anything I learned about earlier or later, I am more likely to change my mind about.
Maybe. I could be an edge case, but I don’t even think current me and 14 year old me could have a civilized discussion about anything we care about xD
Current me and 14-year-old me would certainly agree that Linux (and free software generally) is awesome for example. :D
Oh I’d likely have thought it was neat, I did find Linux a year later (or maybe I was 14, can’t remember exactly, I know I didn’t start using it until I was 15), but I’ve definitely gotten more, and less extreme on it xD
Let the permanent opinions replace the baby ones.
Be a shark. Constantly renew them.
Unless those permanent opinions come in misformed.
