Quote Originally Posted by Gaethan_Tessula View Post
So do you live by refusing to shape your decisions based on available data, some of which will be supplied by other people?

Thinking for yourself involves reviewing, critiquing, and incorporating/synthesizing the thoughts of others. Or did you educate yourself in a completely deductive fashion mentally with no empirical input from the outside world?
I fully believe the only real data comes from experiencing for oneself and ignoring outside input outside of a proceed with caution.