Opinions and beliefs are great because they never have to be correct. All opinions should be well-reasoned, yes, but they never need to remain stationary.
Committing to a belief may be difficult because of the certainty of confrontation, but a challenged opinion is not weak and the challenge is not an attack on the nature of an individual. Sometimes the challenges strengthen your opinion and sharpen your argument. If a discussion points out holes in an opinion, have the courage to meditate on the new knowledge, and the humility to accept that what has been revealed was not necessarily known before. There's strength in accepting the limits of human nature. Infinite knowledge is inhuman.
"The beliefs which we have most warrant for have no safeguard to rest on, but a standing invitation to the whole world to prove them unfounded." - John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
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