Question

Hello,

I’ve read your books (the earlier ones), and there’s still a question that bothers me. I’m not sure you’re the right person to ask, because this may be a question with psychological aspects, but in my view it also has a logical dimension. I’ll try anyway to be clear.
People disagree on a great many issues: I think that giving up territory will lead to terrorism, while someone else thinks it will דווקא bring peace, etc.
Likewise, we see that people change their minds. What I thought at age 20 is not what I think today, and probably not what I’ll think at an older age either.
These facts, and especially the last one, greatly weaken the value of “my opinion” in my own eyes. I myself have changed my mind, and will probably change again in the future, so why should I think that my opinion *today* is the correct one?

I sometimes think about this as a process: throughout life a person “learns,” and together with the slogan, “A judge has only what his eyes see,” he tries more and more to learn about the world and aim at the truth. In the hope that at the end of his days he will hold the most correct views. But that sounds to me like too pessimistic a description, and it certainly doesn’t resolve the difficulty.
I hope I was clear,
 
Thank you!