How Come Everything I Don't Like Builds Character?

Short Term Discomfort for Long Term Gain...

I'm becoming convinced that most major divisions in society - particularly political and religious are based on the above.

Sacrificing the discomfort of active and direct communication to actually achieve a desired result from communication instead of the nebulous result of passive communication is a basic and great example of the concept as well.

There are people who want comfort and they want it now and they want it at all costs - whether it is feeling good, feeling right, or simply experiencing enjoyable sensations (or avoiding unenjoyable ones).

And there are people who are willing to forego those things deliberately and intentionally for what is good, right, and true.

Here's some examples from the political dichotomy:
Short term sensation focused decision making - with long term effects.

Black Lives Matter

Feels good and it feels right - and we will defund the police because of it (Or smaller long term effect: no one gets the benefit of the doubt that they actually already thought that black lives mattered).

Welfare

We are helping people eat (etc) right away - though it may tear out a father's necessity within a family (and/or dignity's existence within a family).

Guns

They are scary and they lead to deaths across the country in mass casual events and small scale events - though American gun ownership may be the greatest bulwark against tyranny the world has ever known (internally OR externally) and indeed a great way to end rape among other crime.

Donald Trump

He is a mean and nasty characterless slob who has taken advantage of women - though he has exposed so much that is wrong with our country and our systems of government structure to the degree that he may have even begun to turn the Titanic around before the iceberg.

The Rainbow Pill of the matter is that even the terrible damage caused by the short term thinking at the expense of long term good may in fact be the short term discomfort that we need to face in the interests of long term good, true, and beautiful things. The question really is, are you thinking long term enough - beyond this moment, beyond this life, beyond this generation? Are you thinking of eternity?