Rou

A recent post I read online has opened my eyes. An ideal I once held dear, and that I believe stems from something most of our mother’s taught us, is actually a problem.

I used to follow the little teaching “if you don’t have something nice to say, don’t say anything at all”. That little mantra, I've recently noticed, is the source of a large sociological problem. The problem is that people are keeping their opinions to themselves. They never voice them except where they know they’ll be accepted.

The consequences of this are startling and obvious, though I admit to never thinking about them. If you never raise your opinion, you can never face a challenge of that opinion. So you can go about your life moving along with whatever idiotic opinion you’ve built up, never questioning, never challenging, and never revising your opinion.

I mean, if you’re too embarrassed by your opinion to say it out loud, shouldn’t that be a sign that you might be wrong? If you can’t defend it, you probably shouldn’t have it. People just sit in their little tiny happy worlds never facing the cold hard reality of the world because they just want to keep thier opinions to themselves.

I’m against people keeping their opinions to themselves. Speak up and defend it. If you can’t do that, you’re part of the problem.