No one enjoys going through hardship only to be told they're a bad person for having had to go through it in the first place. I see this attitude a lot in Conservative camps from people who've never had to reevaluate a single opinion they ever held and I hold it in just as much contempt as I hold the Left in. It's outright derision of personal growth and that's a very unhealthy message to be propagating, both morally and from a more cynical pragmatic standpoint as well, although I attribute far more importance to the former.

No one enjoys going through hardship only to be told they're an bad person for having had to go through it in the first place. I see this attitude a lot in Conservative camps from people who've never had to reevaluate a single opinion they ever held and I hold it in just as much contempt as I hold the Left in. It's outright derision of personal growth and that's a very unhealthy message to be propagating, both morally and from a more cynical pragmatic standpoint as well, although I attribute far more importance to the former.