The easiest example to look at is Smokers. At this point, everyone knows the risks and potential consequences of smoking. Yet people still do it. They make this compromise in their heads that this is what is needed to get through the day. It’s their reality.
The thing with smoking, though, is it's an addictive drug. Your body starts to believe it needs it, and it screams when you take it away. But people actually CHOOSE to embrace discrimination, believing whatever helps justify it in their heads. :-(
Agreed. I think we need to start looking at the reality we embrace as an addiction as well. When we can’t see another world view without causing pain or anguish to ourselves, the withdrawal can be bad. We have to grieve what we have lost.
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