“To disagree with everyone and everything is not the sign of the “rebel”, it is not the sign of “independent thought”, it is not the mark of the leader, it is not one of the paths to truth, it does not make its practicitioner-victim a storm petrel of Progress and Dissent.
It is, briefly put, the mark of the fool and the weak. It is a sign of the young, and one of the things that you should have put aside when you became a man. And it is a vice in the young, too. But excusable. Its correction is part of “education”.” – Dave, the Woodchuck, uttered on DC-stuff