It does cause me to pause, and take in the chorus of opinions that are singing as one. My experience with this is there usually still is one or two jellies who disagree with the group. When that happens I consider the perspectives of who is saying what.
Fairly recently I did a Q about telling children of alcoholics not to drink. Most jellies freaked out telling me it’s a horrible idea. Almost all who were upset by the idea were children of alcoholics, or had family members who were alcoholics, or tended to be very sensitive (I’m not saying they are wrong to be sensitive) about family dysfunction. So, do they know best? Or, is worrying about feelings maybe not really helping these children in the end?
The Q did change my mind a little on the topic after hearing so many jellies who argued the same point, but I will say that on that Q the jellies had so much trouble actually reading what I wrote, so busy accusing me of being horrible and accusing me of something I explicitly said I hadn’t done, and I wrote it more than once, that it diminished for me some of what they were saying. It reinforced what I was thinking. The Q probably will cause me to think twice though in a situation where I might have opportunity to say something to someone. I think twice anyway about things like that, but even more so after the Q.
There was at least one jelly who thought more like I did.