People often accuse me of making up ego-syntonic rationalizations for my own emotions and this makes me very upsetโnot because I am offended by people being critical of me, of course, (I would never,) but because I'm deeply saddened by people being mistaken about reality.
antisemites will say that circumcision is abuse, yet mysteriously few of them are interested in extra foreskin surgery. so they must've somehow arrived at the belief that precisely 1 foreskin is optimal - curious!