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I feel I shouldn't really have any opinions on this topic at all as a non-parent

I've been mulling over how I feel about having opinions about things I don't have personal experience about. I think partly, I've been trying to do something like, having opinions, but holding them lightly, assuming it's likely they'll be refined a lot as I hear more from people who have more personal experience. I used to try to say "I shouldn't have an opinion about this at all", but sometimes, NOT having an opinion is taking sides, if one side it really wrong. And without having ideas, it's hard to learn _more_.

I think I was making a mistake of treating "don't have opinions" as an end goal, of humouring people, when I should actually have been believing they knew more than I did.