On the Subject of Opinions:

No one is entitled to any opinion about anything. 

Suggesting otherwise is merely a witless deflection. You can and should be open to listening to others present their ideas so long as they have solid reason backing them up—and that's good if you are—but that doesn't implicitly mean that either your or their ideas have any real value at all - unless they are rationally supported to their fullest extent, when a truly valid point can then be made.

There's correct, and there's incorrect; informed, and misinformed (and disinformed!). Only in the case of the former, in either case, is an opinion anything more than a mere single step toward the ultimate goal of achieving an actual answer. Until it achieves that goal, an opinion is useless except to provoke discourse between intellectuals. Hovering between the two extremes of idea and conclusion is part of the problem that allows important issues to "exist" forever, circulating uselessly in the social rhetorical, constantly causing useless friction when they can and should be put to rest with a definitive solution. Perception and reality are either identical to each other, or they contradict each other; there is no middle ground! 

Compromise is merely the most convenient mechanism employed by the fearful to justify their perpetual philosophical limbo - and, (so they think, at least), to excuse their divestment of all intellectual responsibility to—but most importantly for—themselves.