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CarbyAu on July 21, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: ‘Strong Opinions, Weakly Held’ Doesn't Work That W...

Not sure where I heard it but: "No decision is a decision." IE Decide to put off your decision until later.

People agitating for everyone to "voice their opinion now" are often looking to form a mandate from those opinions.

dsr_ on July 21, 2020 [–]

In the lyrics of Rush's _Freewill_:

If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice

cutemonster on July 21, 2020 | [–]

Maybe it's important to be clear with the others that indeed one had made a choice: to wait and learn more.

Rather than seeming uncertain, one can seem certain that there's not enough data

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