Many people, in my experience, seem to think that everyone ought to have an opinion on every subject presented them, as if developing reasonable opinions were something that did not take significant amounts of information or effort.
Such people typically do not require an opinion to be reasonable :-D
In my government class in high school, we had to do an exercise that involved saying which side we were on for several standard political issues.
I remember thinking: "Fuck, I don't have an opinion on gun control!" But there was no scale 1-5 strongly agree to strongly disagree. It was just, "which side are you on?" I even complained to the teacher and she said "Just pick one. You have to have some opinion." Then we had to argue for our positions with the other students at our table.
Basically, "come up with an opinion. Any ...
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