text: First, peoples opinions can help others by keeping you out of trouble. when a person does something bad or thinks about doing something bad they might do it if they dont think straight. If someone helps them by telling them, " Dont do that," or " thats a bad idea." They might say that they were not thinking straight and go on there day without doing that bad thing. I once told my little sister, who was about to take my mom's bracelet, to stop and put it back because my mom will get mad if she takes it. She told me no and took it anyways, my mom found out that it as gone when she came home from the store and found out my little sister took it. She got in big trouble and told me that she was sorry for not listening.