Opinions and why

All of us have them and we justify them to ourselves for various reasons. Opinions that are could be unreasonable or wrong but we still maintain for personal reasons or long held beliefs. The danger comes when we refuse to let these go.
I am listing a few with reasons here to give some idea how crazy some of them can be.

Stupidity is being unwilling to learn, not failing to know.
The smartest people are those who realise how little they know.
Both of the above are linked and come from personal experience. I have witnessed the most well read people who will only read things agreeing with their opinions to reinforce their ignorance, they prove that light really does travel faster than sound by appearing bright until you hear them speak. In contrast I have seen illiterates learn skills and improvise in ways I could never imagine, no book learnt skills just the ability to look at things from various angles at once and solve problems learning along the way.

Parents who smoke need to love their children more.
If a drug addiction that damages the people you should love most means more to you than they do, you don't love them enough.

Physical discipline is an excellent way of showing how little self discipline the reprimander has.
Consider the irony of hitting a child for bullying someone smaller than them. Not to mention that despite being in an environment where I witnessed major child abuse when growing up, often resulting in hospitalisation, I have yet to meet a parent who thinks they went to far with physical punishment. In fact the worse the abuser the more convinced they were that it was for the childs good. Proof if needed that people who hit there children don't know what is reasonable force makes thos of us who think more realise it has to be none. Non-physical discipline works and the older my son gets the bigger the rift between his discipline and those getting hit in his favour. He has his moments but my way works further than arms reach and I refuse to allow Asperger's to be an excuse as too many do.

If you need drink or drugs to have a good time, you are too boring for words.
I am boring and openly admit it. Strangely there are people declaring otherwise because I, to coin a phrase used recently decribing me 'walk my own path.' If you can't enjoy life without intoxication there is something more missing than the substance. If the words 'I havent' had enough to drink yet' or similar have passed your lips you fall into this group, and those of us willing to act the fool without will be ejoying ourselves as you hide in the shadows.

Anyone can be fit/ smart/ or whatever they want.
If you think you can or if you thinnk you can't, you're probably right.
Nicked the last one from Henry Ford, not a nice man and never said 'you can have it in any colour, as long as it's black.' but he did say this. It is my mantra and I live by it, making me hell on earth to live with. If you believe in yourself and are willing to add hard work to the mix there is very little you cannot achieve. There is a lot of it's Ok for them being fit or having the brains etc. as a cop out, truth is most of the people saying it have avoided the things that will make them so. Starting later means you may not be as good as someone starting younger but that doesn't mean it's not worth doing.

Growing old is inevitable, growing up is optional.
There are a number of things expected as we get older, pipe and slippers may be outdated but there are things we are supposed to have left behind in later years, strangely enough in some cases even by my age, Im not even really old yet middle aged definately and undeniably but senility is a way off yet. The strangest part is everyone I know who has conformed to this seems unhappy in stagnation while others less conventional are generally enjoying life.

There will be more but not today.