Opinions, everybody got them. But how we display them is as differently as there are people in the world. It's always good to have opinions. We need to have them in order to survive. How else could we know if some kind of stereotype is usually someone we should be careful with, someone who might just hurt us in some manner. Or just something as simple as choosing what to have for dinner, if we didn't have any opinion whatsoever these simple tasks would seem nearly impossible.
What I'm intrigued about is how some people need their opinions heard all the time, the opinions lose their functionality. Rather than being something for helping us deal with daily based choosing it becomes a part of some greater “ego filling” behavior.
e.g. Some people might be quite good at giving advices, giving solid opinions when needed. When this type of behavior is being reinforced some people start doing this all day long. It's not a conversation between equals anymore, it's a conversation between a mentor and a student. Making everyone who talks to you feel like an idiot. This might be why great thinkers like Socrates took the path of making the ones he spoke to think themselves rather than giving them advices and opinions.
This behavior is something I sometimes have trouble avoiding myself. I guess it's important to just remember that everyone of us are human beings, and if the reason why one is giving advice is to help the greater good. One also has to realize that giving to much advice might be counter-productive.
So if one ever is to give advice or opinions it should always be for helping the greater good, and not for a ego boost which I think many people get from giving their opinions and advices.
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