What’s true is already true, and even though thinking about it being true makes me feel like I must be a bad person, it can’t cause me to be more of a bad person than I already am.

A lot of what I do about this lately amounts to tabooing "bad person", and discovering that most of my evidence for my System 1 definitions of "bad person" amount to things said and done by idiots with ulterior motives, that I uncritically absorbed before I was old enough to know better.

Our brains tend to link feelings of "bad person" to whatever made other people speak or act towards us or others as if they were bad, and then we just think that those things make us bad. A kind of self-applied fundamental attribution error, as though a single act can have that much weight in determining your character.