[neocon1984]

If it makes you feel righteous and pure, do it, but that’s all placebo effect.

That's really what it's all about. The placebo effect (placebo = latin for roughly "I will please") is very powerful. You can find placebo effects in drug studies of over 20%. I am not sure about the studies of feeling "righteous and pure", but as an aging former hippie, I suspect that the effects are more about the moral vanity that has afflicted my generation.

[Nepeta]

I am not sure about the studies of feeling "righteous and pure", but as an aging former hippie, I suspect that the effects are more about the moral vanity that has afflicted my generation.

Exactly so. As someone who was a conservative in 1968, I am weary of the 60s and their aftereffects. I want the silliness to stop.