I didn’t have an exact model of what I’d expect to go wrong, but was generally aware that it might pack a big emotional wollop for people in particular spaces, (two people have messaged me so far to say they were shaken by it, in a good way), and it seemed generally better to say “hey this gun is loaded” and be ready to deal with whatever fallout there turned out to be.
But, at the very least, people might just have a lot of stuff going on and don’t necessarily have time to have some hopefully-cathartic-but-meanwhile-destabilizing-or-intense-reorientation..
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[edit: Maybe one particular thing I’d be worried about are people with a belief that things-will-be-okay-soon-because-something-will-end-or-someone-will-help them, and then this post questions that belief, and suddenly a psychologically loadbearing belief is gone and they don’t immediately have the tools to deal with it]
What’s “I am” mean in that sentence?
I didn’t have an exact model of what I’d expect to go wrong, but was generally aware that it might pack a big emotional wollop for people in particular spaces, (two people have messaged me so far to say they were shaken by it, in a good way), and it seemed generally better to say “hey this gun is loaded” and be ready to deal with whatever fallout there turned out to be.
But, at the very least, people might just have a lot of stuff going on and don’t necessarily have time to have some hopefully-cathartic-but-meanwhile-destabilizing-or-intense-reorientation..
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[edit: Maybe one particular thing I’d be worried about are people with a belief that things-will-be-okay-soon-because-something-will-end-or-someone-will-help them, and then this post questions that belief, and suddenly a psychologically loadbearing belief is gone and they don’t immediately have the tools to deal with it]