One of the unfortunate realities is that sometimes you need to be exposed to how grim reality can be as the alternative is living in a delusional bubble. However, one of the underlying points I was getting to is that often what is considered 'acceptable exposure' is highly politicized simply because control is attempting to be absolute and all encompassing. To me, comes across as overtly paternalistic especially when you start looking at the contradictions of 'good bad' vs 'bad bad' and why it is the way it is. I find it disappointing that we aren't allowed to self-censor, and even if we wanted to there simply aren't the tools available necessary for empowering people to make their own decisions at the point of consumption, but rather we employ filtering at the point of distribution which shifts the burden of decisions onto the platform and enact laws that focus that power even further into a limited number of hands.