Okay...
This was so informative @spectrumecons . It made me to go through my own set of beliefs and opinions...
Its seems I have a wide range of opinions...
But now I'm thinking.. is it really good? Cause most people my age already has a fixed set of rules which they abide by...
Or does it even matter on how fixed or flexible our opinions are?
Surely there would always be a clash with another person..
Another reason why I don't really like philosophy 😂😂💔
@agmoore what do you think?
Thank you for calling me from the shadows, @seki1 😄
We all like to think we make up our own minds. We all like to think we are relatively free of influence. But that is not an honest assessment. The best we can hope for is to foster a skeptical perspective. To try, as @spectrumecons suggests, to tap different resources. But most of our resources are funneled through the same channels. And when information is not funneled through those channels we have to wonder where it comes from. What is the agenda of that source?
It's not easy, and takes a lot of work. My position frankly is that I probably don't know half of what is going on in the world. I live in a bubble very deliberately constructed around me by others, by parties that want to persuade. The Internet is not much help. Who knows what's true there.
Still, we can't give up. We have to struggle to find the truth and then do our best to make a decision. Once we've done that, as @spectrumecons suggests again, we have to be ready to change our minds.
You got a really long answer to your question, @seki1. Ask a former social studies teacher such a question and get ready to be bored. 😆
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I knew that such a post would interest you @agmoore 😂😂😂
It's not that long though..
Thanks for your reply😂😂
I think believing we know more than we actually do is a trap many of us fall into at some point. Realising how little we really know is a great turning point to bringing us closer to the truth. It provides us with motivation to explore beyond our usual sphere of influence.
I think it is healthy to have both rigid and flexible opinions. In some areas we will have consistently strong evidence to suggest our opinions correct. Over a long enough time frame, if nothing significant changes, these opinions will and probably should become rigid. In other cases we will have opinions that are not supported by much evidence but just feel correct based on what we believe we know as well as our current environment. These opinions should be flexible to change and we should be more willing to seek more information.