Consistency and Correctness - Part 2

It has been a crazy week, and unfortunately I have been unavoidably out of pocket quite a bit. So now we can get to the follow up that I was planning exactly a week ago now.

So the four types of of opinions/arguments that you can come across:

1. Incorrect and Inconsistent: This comes from someone who hasn't put any real thought into their opinions. They spout one liners they have heard from the news or literally bumper stickers with no real justification and little understanding. People in this category can embrace glaringly inconsistent positions without it phasing them in the slightest. In this situation, not only are they shallow in their understanding, but they are wrong. So their what AND why's are dumb.
2. Correct and Inconsistent: While this category may be ostensibly correct I think it is possibly the worst group. They are correct, which is great, but they have no idea why, and they make people who actually get the why look bad. I have no respect for opinions that are shallow even if they are right.
3. Correct and Consistent: This is the best kind. The position is right, like in the last, but the opinion is thought out and consistent. The person has gone through a process to understand the ramifications of their underlying assumptions and carried them through to get to their final conclusions. To be fair, it takes a lot of work to do this. It takes time and thought and discussion and argument. It is why when I see someone who has taken the time to really work through a subject well I have a lot of respect for their position.
4. Incorrect and Consistent: This one, while being wrong, is the second best in my opinion. Despite being wrong I still have a lot of respect for the position. The intention and thought to be consistent is worthy of respect regardless. Another aspect of this is honesty. I have seen many people who are very intelligent and well researched in a subject be terribly inconsistent due to their inability to be honest about their opinions. So regardless of the base assumptions, no matter how wrong, I can respect the intellectual honesty to be up front and transparent. And then fight them to the death.

I have a number of opinions that are in category 3 that I have spent a lot of time developing. I have a decent number in category 2 though. The goal here is to not hold those position very strongly in case it isn't a category 2, but a category 1. Hopefully I don't have any category 4s.

My goal is to get as many of my opinions to be correct and consistent as much as possible.