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The point is you don't even have to agree to disagree — it is not mandatory to tell the other person your opinion. You can also just listen to theirs and ask questions etc.

A conversation can be much, much more than a clash of opinions. Going into a conversation with the idea of "the other guy is wrong" is a sure way of never understanding how they arrived at that wrong opinion to begin with. Yet sometimes precisely this is the most valuable thing you could learn from them.



> A conversation can be much, much more than a clash of opinions.

It can be, but sometimes it isn't. Those are the cases I was talking about where agreeing to disagree can be a good outcome.


> it is not mandatory to tell the other person your opinion.

Even more -- it is not mandatory to have an opinion on everything.




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