Strange7 comments on Making your explicit reasoning trustworthy - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Strange7 07 March 2012 03:59:55AM 1 point [-]

As one example, many people have unrealistic idealized views of some important persons in their lives -- their parents, for example, or significant others. If they subject these views to rational scrutiny, and perhaps also embark on fact-finding missions about these persons' embarrassing past mistakes and personal failings, their new opinions will likely be more accurate, but it may make them much unhappier, and possibly also shatter their relationships, with all sorts of potential awful consequences.

Consequences like... getting out of a relationship founded on horror and lies? I agree that could be painful, but I have a hard time seeing it as a net loss.