I'm doing the very bare minimum to try to make things easier on people here.
[He doesn't think compiling the guide, or making posts with information, or giving people places to ask questions should constitute making him a voice of authority. Maybe, if it does, that's part of the problem.]
It isn't my responsibility to advocate for Morningstar. And I shouldn't have to put things gently and politely so that people don't get their feelings hurt, especially when the issue itself is a matter of caring about what new arrivals are going through. Sometimes emotion is a necessary part of making things change.
[And he wants to add that part of the reason he hasn't been open about being a psychologist here is that he doesn't want to have to be in that role. He doesn't want to have to be perfectly neutral and placid and patiently validate everyone, especially not when he thinks they're morally in the wrong and won't even consider the possibility that they are. It's exhausting and he'd wanted to have the chance to do something different, although as it turns out this alternative is just as exhausting in other ways.]
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[He doesn't think compiling the guide, or making posts with information, or giving people places to ask questions should constitute making him a voice of authority. Maybe, if it does, that's part of the problem.]
It isn't my responsibility to advocate for Morningstar. And I shouldn't have to put things gently and politely so that people don't get their feelings hurt, especially when the issue itself is a matter of caring about what new arrivals are going through. Sometimes emotion is a necessary part of making things change.
[And he wants to add that part of the reason he hasn't been open about being a psychologist here is that he doesn't want to have to be in that role. He doesn't want to have to be perfectly neutral and placid and patiently validate everyone, especially not when he thinks they're morally in the wrong and won't even consider the possibility that they are. It's exhausting and he'd wanted to have the chance to do something different, although as it turns out this alternative is just as exhausting in other ways.]