Opinions are usually dumb
Dear Society
Please stop expecting people to always have opinions about everything. I don't know you neurotypical dudes work but when some asks me my opinion on a building, decoration, some other persons opinion clothes, some cultural thingy I usually have barely noticed said thing until you disturbed my (very interesting) train of though and asked me about it. Now I have to quickly recall said thingy and make up some opinion with enough detail so that I won't get any annoying follow up questions in about 5 seconds or you'll assume I'm hiding something, leading to even more annoying questions. Even if you are in possession of the instant opinion gland that 90% of people seem to have this is still a bad thing because changing your opinion, now matter how flippantly you form it has a high emotional cost which only increases the more you have to depend said opinion because you can't stand the idea of ever being wrong. It eventually leads to before arguing about opinions they suddenly conjured up like their suspects in murder trail with a death sentence.
The only times when I form opinions when not being expected to pull one out is when I have a chain of evidence going back observed scientific evidence that said thingy is, as far as my current knowledge goes, either factual true or false or morally right or wrong. If it can't be tied back to that either because of lack of knowledge or the subjective nature of the thingy then I probably don't care even if about a thingy I am familiar with and know whether I like or not I'm not interested in convincing you either way.
People please be more willing to be neutral about things and to be neutral about that neutrality. Fight the opinion surplus.
People please be more willing to be neutral about things and to be neutral about that neutrality. Fight the opinion surplus.
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