I have a number of times expressed opposition to the ban against "religion" and "politics" on this site, because I think that in those topics one can find psychological understanding that is well worth exploring, and that one is deprived of those understandings if one cannot express them. I have not been greeted in those thoughts with open arms (or minds?).

However, there is a difference between being able to express thoughts here, in public, and being able to think about them. It is really the suppression of being able oneself to even think about them that is damaging. I find it possible at least to some extent to be able to think on these topics, even in the face of opposition to expressing thoughts here. It would be better to be able to express them openly, but not being able to is not an absolute barrier to being able to think about them.

Of course, my thoughts on the subject would be found by some to be highly upsetting...