It would have been much easier to simply say, Yeah, he's right. I agree with that.

如果不经过自己的思考就简单地说："噢，他是对的，我同意"，

Or to simply reject the point of view by saying, The old man doesn't know what he's talking about.

或是拒绝说："这个老爸不知道自己在说什么"，

Instead, having two dads whom I loved forced me to think and ultimately choose a way of thinking for myself.

然而，这两个我所爱的观点不同的爸爸却迫使我对每一个有分歧的问题进行思考，并最终形成自己的想法。

As a process, choosing the thing for myself turned out to be much more valuable in the long run,

这一过程，即自己去思考和选取的过程，在后来的漫长岁月中被证明对我是非常有益的。

rather than simply accepting or rejecting a single point of view.

而不是简单地全盘肯定或者全盘否定一个观点

It would have been much easier to simply say, Yeah, he's right. I agree with that.

如果不经过自己的思考就简单地说："噢，他是对的，我同意"，

Or to simply reject the point of view by saying, The old man doesn't know what he's talking about.

或是拒绝说："这个老爸不知道自己在说什么"，

Instead, having two dads whom I loved forced me to think and ultimately choose a way of thinking for myself.

然而，这两个我所爱的观点不同的爸爸却迫使我对每一个有分歧的问题进行思考，并最终形成自己的想法。

As a process, choosing the thing for myself turned out to be much more valuable in the long run,

这一过程，即自己去思考和选取的过程，在后来的漫长岁月中被证明对我是非常有益的。

rather than simply accepting or rejecting a single point of view.

而不是简单地全盘肯定或者全盘否定一个观点