I've jokingly said that Catholicism is the penalty brake application against the worst excesses of HBD.

With that said, because I'm in the "we have to make them like us camp", it's hard to come up with an alternative if we can't make them like us, so it feeds the bad thoughts monster. And the bad thoughts are far more compelling as a solution to a problem that must be solved at all costs. You can't stop caring about what they thing because they're poisoning the minds of other people who are swayed by their arguments.