What’s the balance between ruminating and researching on a social justice issue -over doing it vs not doing it at all vs doing it the “right amount”? Previous advice I’ve seen on here says “just don’t try to solve that problem”. But really my VALUES say that people aren’t investigating enough their own biases - how to remove obstacles at work based on ability, race, never identity. For example, we’re problem solving at work for our equity plan. We’re changing our curriculum to make sure it’s not just white males, adding our pronouns, adding accessibility for the blind, etc. but I’m constantly thinking about it. It seems a bit heartless to say “we’ll just stop. Just stop trying to improve things for people” Thoughts on the grey area of when it’s “too much”?

I struggle with this as well. I have moral ocd and a lot of my moral triggers stem from social issues. I often have trouble separating genuine research into these things from feeling forced to do these things by my ocd and just ruminating. It helps if I try to discern whether I’m being motivated to look at something from just my own curiosity or if it’s my anxiety and I was triggered. Taking time to separate the motivations behind why really help. When it comes to not solving the problem or dwelling on it, it does work with ocd but obviously with caution to different things. For something like values I, personally, had to come to terms with 1) not being sure or certain about my own values, 2) not being sure or certain about the morality surrounding my values, and 3) still being an advocate and a supporter of things I am sure and passionate about. I don’t think people investigate enough into their own biases either. Even people online who will sit and repost thing after things trying to prove theyre woke. A lot of it is performative and I don’t think they put in the work to investigate their biases either. You seem passionate about that and it seems genuine. So anything you do to fuel that would seem genuine to me as well. There is a huge grey area between enough and not enough because we all have different opinions about what is enough. That’s the uncertainty you have to deal with. The thought of “I don’t know exactly how much is enough and I won’t know for sure if I’m doing enough or too much but that’s okay. I’m going to continue to do what I’m passionate about and what feels proper and secure for me” you can’t figure out the grey area no one can. It’s something you have to sit with and not let it hold you back from doing the change you want to.