What’s something you used to hate but ended up loving as you got older?
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The "that's just your opinion" argument. It's incredibly dismissive and it strongly ties into the bullshit philosophy that "opinions can't be right or wrong." I used to think of an opinion as being exactly the same as a regular belief.
Eventually though, I realized that I could define the word differently myself. Nowdays I consider an opinion to be a belief that the believer can't or won't defend. Now I love the "that's just your opinion" argument, because I can say "no, it can't be just an opinion actually, because I have been justifying and defending it." A great defense that not only challenges their initial dismissal, but challenges the very philosophical basis of their dismissal.
Also, it gives me a great opportunity to use that argument against others, except now I can specifically point to the fact that they don't justify their position. Now I love that argument.
Yogurt would be one.
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