If you're picking a side on this because the people around you and the people you grew up with have that position, you need to stick to sports.
If you're picking a side because it seems like the most sensible idea on the surface, you have the right idea but you only did the easy part.
If you're picking a side because you appreciate the advantages and disadvantages inherent in the position as it applies to the specific practices, traditions, and temperaments of the subjects you're trying to apply it to, I think you might have a case to make.
If you think there are no disadvantages to a particular position then you fall into the first category I described.
I have weird opinions about most things that I've bothered to think about for very long. When I look into them I eventually encounter the exact reasoning process taken by a certain side to reach the conclusion it did. Often times it's easy to spot certain logical leaps they made that they would not have made if they had been presented with different information at crucial moments in the reasoning process. And this isn't even factoring in the confirmation bias that governs most people's reasoning about a particular issue. I think it's the reason I often find intelligent people holding opinions based on almost childlike naivete backed up by a veritable arsenal of anecdotes. In gaming the old Dune phrase "fear is the mind killer" is a good slogan, but in this kind of stuff I find it's usually ego that does the most damage.
Opinions are demonstrably not equal. That is my drunken forum rant for the day.
