Yes, taking issue with thinking about things sounds just like me.
I am saying that "it never hurt to [blank]" is rarely true in the best of cases and "it never hurt to think" in particular is so patently false. Thinking about things in an honest way very often hurts; these things are designed to be accepted without question and when they are examined they fall apart and cause the thinker to lose faith in the institution, feel implicit guilt, and more. Whether that institution is WoW, patriarchy, white privilege, something overtly political, or something apparently innocent. That is why criticism is shut down with defensiveness instead of received with debate and that is why it remains important to be the person brave enough to deal with the pain of consciousness anyway, because most of us don't want to have to think about those things.
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I am saying that "it never hurt to [blank]" is rarely true in the best of cases and "it never hurt to think" in particular is so patently false. Thinking about things in an honest way very often hurts; these things are designed to be accepted without question and when they are examined they fall apart and cause the thinker to lose faith in the institution, feel implicit guilt, and more. Whether that institution is WoW, patriarchy, white privilege, something overtly political, or something apparently innocent. That is why criticism is shut down with defensiveness instead of received with debate and that is why it remains important to be the person brave enough to deal with the pain of consciousness anyway, because most of us don't want to have to think about those things.