Among my acquaintances, I am considered to be the enemy of the absolutists. I passed many a standardized test by simply reading the statement and finding an absolute, then challenging it.

A particularity humorous exchange happened when we were in our younger days and a compatriot arrived with a case of beer in cans. A friend of mine remarked "there is nothing I hate more than canned beer". Then he turned toward me and I was just staring at him. He knew then, and tells the story to this day, that I was contemplating the millions of things that he would hate more than canned beer, and that I would clearly be foisting all of them upon him during that weekend.

Never say never. Never say always. Never say anything in the absolute. The world has many ways to humble us.