I'm not sure where this idea that everyone's opinion has 100% equal value but in my and certain other people's minds this is a scary development. For example, who would you trust more to fix your car's brakes: a 17 year old who simply read a book on repairing brakes, or the slightly-wrinkled 40 year old mechanic with scars on his hands & a bad back from bending over cars all day long for a couple of decades?
No disrespect to the young guy but
REALITY tells me to ask the older man.
And also, telling people not to argue could be construed to be a form of propaganda itself.
BTW (I found these while skipping around the Net; the boldfacing is mine):
Quote:
* Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates correction is stupid. -- Proverbs 12:1
* Insight, untested and unsupported, is an insufficient guarantee of truth. -- Bertrand Russell
* Like a house that has vanished, so is wisdom to a fool; and the knowledge of the ignorant is unexamined talk. -- Sirach 21, 18:21 (RSV)
* To know and yet think we do not know is the highest attainment. Not to know and yet think we do is a disease. -- Lao-Tzu
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