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Are all opinions of equal value?

No – People have equal rights to have their opinions.

Some of my opinions are informed and have greater value than other opinions I have which possess very little value.

For better or worse, I have a right to the whole sorted continuum of them.

Yet – if I am wise, I will keep most of my uninformed opinions either to myself or within a small circle of trusted friends to test and be corrected.

True friends will challenge my ill-informed opinions and may save me from much public embarrassment.

I have thousands of such friends in these "private" havens of social community.

Not everything I say has great value. Make that a matter of public record in this private place.

If you will be gracious enough not to hold me to every ill-considered opinion I express, I will seek to be humble enough to be willing to change them.

Like most people who are labeled "ADHD," I express my thoughts to see what I am thinking, test my thinking, and, sometimes, revise my thinking.

Even this thought is subject to revision.

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