I suspect the vast majority of arguments would disappear if we realized that we don't actually care about the things we claim to care so much about.
I don't know if it's human nature, or societal pressure, or how we're brought up, or what we're taught in school, or insecurity, or stress, or lack of self-actualization, or carelessness, or immaturity, or ego, or what. .
But it seems like so many of us feel the need to have an opinion on just about everything there is to have an opinion about.
We seem to be averse to responding with:
"I don't know" or
"I don't really have an opinion about that" or
"Hmmm. . ." or
"That's really interesting; please tell me more."
Or any number of non-committal, non-combative, non-egotistical, non-expert, non-aggressive, non-partisan, non-political, non-biased responses that we could choose.
But don't.
Instead we choose to not only have an opinion on just about everything. We have a LOUD, BOISTEROUS, DISMISSIVE, ZERO SUM GAME, CANCELING, SELF-RIGHTEOUS, BULLYING OPINION ON JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING.
It doesn't have to be that way. We just choose to make it that way – individually and collectively.
All this said, I don't really have that strong of an opinion about it.
Just something I've been thinking about a lot, and I thought I'd share.