Educate yourself and educate others. Learn to think critically. Education, not indoctrination. Obviously you must educate yourself before you can educate others.

Not to pick on anyone, but read through the comments on this thread. Some you will think are a good idea, some you will think are idiotic. This is simply caused by lack of information, sometimes on the posters part, sometimes on mine.

But try to educate yourself on a topic before you have an opinion on it. Do NOT consider yourself informed because you heard or read some expert say it. What someone on Reddit said is even worse. And if you ask someone on reddit to back up what they said they will cite an expert. Well that doesn't mean you know it, it simply means that someone said it.

If you ask 100 people what is the most important thing, you will get 101 answers. And most of these are just parroting what they heard someone else say.

I've always loved the tag line from the Straight Dope.

> Fighting ignorance since 1973. (It's taking longer than we thought.)