An opinion you picked up from the top comment isn’t your opinion. It’s a rental.

REFLECTION

WHAT THIS MEANS

Absorbing a view from the first confident thing you read feels like thinking, and it skips the part where you work out whether you agree. The phrasing arrives already polished, which makes it easy to repeat, and repeating it is not the same as holding it. Nothing of yours has been tested.

Before you pass on an opinion, see whether you can argue the other side of it properly. If you cannot, you have borrowed rather than decided. Go find one source that disagrees, and whatever you believe afterward will at least be yours.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

Which of your strong opinions did you borrow without checking?

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