You are thereby in effect creating a hierarchy yourself: The people who have your opinion are placed “above” the people who don’t—it’s better to be against hierarchy than to be for it, right? The very preference creates a two-step hierarchy, in a sense. By doing that you just made several moves that are anything but humble. To start with, you are reducing the richness of possible answers to just your own position “and all others”. This means that you are squeezing together many, perhaps very qualitatively different, answers and labeling them under one category (the non-correct one). There is
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