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In my upper-middle-class British education, having opinions was not only a sacred right but also the solemn moral duty of the well-educated. You could (and must!) engage in debate when you disagreed with somebody, but the sacred-right aspect meant that only a small and well-enumerated set of opinions could truly be criticised. Lacking convictions was a sign of intellectual weakness, but it didn't really matter which convictions you held.

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