Do you have an opinion on something? Why do you have the opinion? How did you arrive at this opinion?

If you can answer all three of these questions for any one opinion, you should be able to share this opinion with others. However, if you are unable to answer all three of these questions, your opinion can have consequences.

Having no explanation for an opinion makes the opinion simply a remark, yet someone can take this remark and actually do something based on the remark, with these actions potentially resulting in consequences for one or many people.

Let’s use COVID-19 as an example:

Wearing a mask and staying six feet apart from one another… many people have opinions on both of these things, with some calling these things “suggestions”. Some people agree with wearing a mask to minimize the spread of a coronavirus, while others consider the mask a violation of their civil liberty. Realizing that a coronavirus had been recognized in 2019 as a mutation of a previous virus should be ample evidence for one to base their conduct on behalf of society and not one’s self, but opinions seem to exist, and as such, result in the key word here: consequences.

The absence of foundation and explanation lie at the crux of this detrimental reality.

Become a part of the solution, not the problem, with regard to anything in life.