Illusion and reality

Athol explains why it's important to believe in at least the potential for the best in others:

The trouble is, a lot of the Red Pill approach to life assumes a near telepathic assumption of negative intentions in others. Is it often right? Sure it is. But it�s almost impossible to live happily if you are endlessly paranoid and jaded about the intentions of everyone around you. If every woman is a hot mess of whorish desire and nothing else but a lying cunt of a hamster justifying her Alpha male sperm seeking� well it gets tiring being on edge after a while. Likewise every man is a third wheel seeking an opportunity and plots behind your back, pumping you for information about your woman, seeking to make a run into the endzone the moment you blink too slowly.

You can't maintain a combat edge indefinitely.  Eventually, you break down.  At some point, you have to take a few chosen others on trust, men and women.  People do mature, people do change, people do surmount their baser instincts.

I don't recommend choosing illusion over reality, but it is also important to understand that the potential for doing evil is not the same as actually committing it.  And experiencing temptation is not action.

Knowing that a woman does not belong on a pedestal is not synonymous with believing that she dwells in a sewer.  The fact of female fallibility should not lead one to assume that they are subhuman, and the fact of sexual inequality should not be confused with male infallibility.