Traumatized By Reality

There are some things which are objectively worthy of fear.  For example, it is logically possible for there to be an afterlife of extreme agony for everyone that has nothing to do with morality.  Eternal torture of a person could only be unjust because of its inherent disproportionality, but amoral eternal torture could not be unjust (such as if there is nothing good or evil), and even if this is not waiting for people (it very likely is not), it could have been the case.  To be terrified of this logical truth is not irrational.  To be arbitrarily, subjectively terrified of anything, in actuality, is not irrational unless it is tied to false or assumed beliefs or erroneous actions.  Frightened to a penetrating level by miscellaneous truths or possibilities, a person could allow themself to let trauma over the nature of reality dictate their worldview and actions rather than reason.

If someone cannot handle the fact that neither men nor women are metaphysically superior to each other, then they are stupid, deserving to feel whatever genuine trauma they might experience while listening to someone more rational affirm this.  If someone hates that the uncaused cause might not be Yahweh and might not care about us at all, and they let this motivate the assumption that Christianity is true, they are traumatized by reality (for this is logically possible even if it turns out to be false) and have mishandled their situation.  If someone is offended by the fact that loving a person does not mean you cannot or should not hate them or vice versa, and they let this drive them to assume that all hatred is evil or incompatible with love, then whatever psychological suffering they face from this is deserved.

If someone hates the thought of there being evidence for Christianity's veracity because of its tenets like the justice of the Amalekite genocide, then it is unfortunate to be them, as reality would not depend on their wishes either way.  If someone hates that logical axioms are true no matter what they prefer and that other things follow from this by necessity, they are just spurning the only inherent truths which do not depend on anything else.  If someone hates that there is nothing adulterous about extramarital flirtation or attraction (and thus there is no basis for objection on these grounds if their partner does this), again, how this psychologically impacts them does not matter.  The truth is the truth and it does not hinge on their whims, convenience, or feelings.

Non-rationalists can go to great lengths to not run into these logical facts or dwell on them if someone else brings them up.  If your confrontational words to them are razors and briars, you have done nothing wrong unless there is slander or real and not perceived malice.  There is nothing false in truth and nothing immoral about discovering, savoring, and verbally acknowledging the truth, even if it is objectively harmful to non-rationalists' mental wellbeing.  You can say shocking, volatile things to such people specifically to make them suffer without having done anything wrong, for there can be nothing illicit about simply being honest with oneself and others about the knowable nature of reality.  Someone who cares more about gratification than the objective, intrinsic truths of reason disregards what cannot have been any other way.

If you are traumatized by reality and it is anything other than a happenstance subjective reaction to a truth that you rationalistically understand, it is literally impossible for you to deserve relief until your worldview is perfectly aligned with reason.  This glorious truth is something rationalists can revel in at the expense of everyone else around them if no other rationalists are present.  Of course it could be very hurtful to many people.  Certainly, they might loathe you, lash out, or retreat into silence.  It would still always be better for emotionalists and other non-rationalists to shut the fuck up, and to do so because of ferocious social pressures, than it is for them to spew their idiocy boldly or obliviously.

Logic, people.  It is very fucking helpful.