I&#x27;d call it emotional strength rather than emotional armor. In any case I wholeheartedly agree with standing up for people who are having a hard time. But simply censoring and covering up the darkness will only cause it to fester and grow stronger while the emotional strength of the supposed victim atrophies.<p>This reminds me of a passage from MLK&#x27;s Letter From a Birmingham Jail:<p>&gt;Actually, we who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. We bring it out in the open, where it can be seen and dealt with. Like a boil that can never be cured so long as it is covered up but must be opened with all its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be exposed, with all the tension its exposure creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured. But though I was initially disappointed at being categorized as an extremist, as I continued to think about the matter I gradually gained a measure of satisfaction from the label. Was not Jesus an extremist for love: &quot;Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.&quot; Was not Amos an extremist for justice: &quot;Let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like an ever flowing stream.&quot; Was not Paul an extremist for the Christian gospel: &quot;I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus.&quot; Was not Martin Luther an extremist: &quot;Here I stand; I cannot do otherwise, so help me God.&quot; And John Bunyan: &quot;I will stay in jail to the end of my days before I make a butchery of my conscience.&quot; And Abraham Lincoln: &quot;This nation cannot survive half slave and half free.&quot; And Thomas Jefferson: &quot;We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal . . .&quot; So the question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. Will we be extremists for hate or for love? Will we be extremists for the preservation of injustice or for the extension of justice?