You should keep an open mind about most things. Yet, as The Old People like to clarify, "Not so open that your brains fall out".
How can you tell the difference?
You don't need to be open-minded to every obviously bad idea: toward murder, rape, theft, kidnapping or other acts of archation. Being open-minded to these is a sign that your brains have fallen out. Closed-mindedness to things of this sort is wisdom.
But pretty much everything else is a good topic to keep your mind open on. You never know when someone might have a good perspective you never considered before. You might even discover you were wrong.
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"It's important to keep an open mind, but also to maintain a healthy scepticism," I think would be the best way to put it. So many idealists have their heads in the clouds, and three words bring them crashing back down to reality if they listen: let's be practical. Of course, the response to this is something along the lines of "some people must sacrifice their liberties for the greater good," to which one must inquire "what is the greater good?" If one always considers the lofty concept of morality when making decisions, then practicality frequently takes a back seat. History is soaked in the blood of those who had the moral high ground and whitewashed by the dregs for that very reason.
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...Who fraudulently claimed the moral high ground...
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It goes along with my usual rebuttal to those who claim to be more moral than their opponents: you can be right; you can be dead right.
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I'm open-minded to a lot of things, except communism. Lol
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Communism is a cute idea, in fact I used to like it myself, but it doesn't work. Any idea that has no practical use must be either discarded or revised.
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