When you point out certain truthful phenomenon to those that are invested in the opposite being true, expect anger and very loud virtue-signalling. The stakes are very high. Don't give up and allow, the temporary saving of face from your communication partner.

The anger and virtue-signalling are face-saving mechanisms. You are going to get blocked. Don't take this as a personal insult. You hit home.

You may be tempted to leave those with unwavering faith in a sacred pharmaceutical cow to their own devices and self-destruction. I know I have been, but then I remember the children. I don't know if it is my virtue. I don't think so. I just can't do anything else but speak truth. I cannot silently sit by why the innocent are led to sacrifice. I would want someone to speak for me or for my child.

The golden rule. Maybe.

But why attack virtue? Well like anger, virtue protects the ego. It keeps you from admitting fallibility by shifting it onto another. Virtue is used all the time to promote horrendous things. Discrimination. Segregation. Atrocity. Be very wary of it. How? Assume you are wrong and the other person has information, or is dealing with something you are not aware of. CONSIDER THAT YOU COULD BE WRONG.

Or rather there is something you need to learn. There is always something more to learn.

And always meditate.

The Tao Te Ching warns against attaching to virtue.

When I first began to explore the Tao, I was confused by this guidance. With a Judeo-Christian upbringing, I was taught virtue was to be pursued and practiced. The last few years has taught me unequivocally that attaching to virtue turns people into irrational and sanctimonious tyrants. Boy, do I get that now.