I've come to the conclusion that there are two fundamental pre-requisites for the provision and acceptance of opinions. Opinion-giving/receiving will fail if the following two conditions are not met:
1) You, the asker/receiver of opinions must be willing to accept that you are wrong/the other person is right.
2) The other person, the askee/giver of opinions, must be prepared the accept that they are wrong/you are right.
Most opinion sharing failures appear to be solely due to breeches of these core conditions. There are, or course, auxiliary 'rules' which are always worth considering:
a) Do not seek opinions on websites. The human/computer interface is well known as a magnifier of gross idiocy.
b) Do not seek the opinion of anyone who is a direct rival for love/job/jellyfish.
c) Do not seek the opinion of anyone who has recently demonstrated a tendency to violate conditions 1 & 2 above.
d) Do seek the opinions of inanimate objects/pets/furniture/the sky.
e) Do not seek the opinion of your parents beyond the point at which your age is greater than or equal to two-thirds of the average of theirs. They'll be losing it by this point, and will inevitably lead you down the garden path.
f) Do seek the opinion of the garden path (see point d).
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