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There is a phrase I use sometimes when I am reading nonfiction about something horrible and someone close to me sighs and flinches and says, "I should read that I guess." I say, "I can carry this knowledge for our group."

I think that we collectively need to know the horrible details. And I think that each of us needs to know the broad-strokes outlines of some of the major ones. But I don't think that every single one of us needs to know every single detail of every single horror, in order to be a good person--and in fact I think we have evidence that some of the people who do know lots of the details go ahead and are not good people. So...please give yourself permission to carry only some of the knowledge of the world's evils. Let other people around you carry other parts. That doesn't make you a bad person.