it's a valuable opinion, and thanks for sharing it with many details and references. I totally agree on what you wrote, especially on the fact that most of the time it's not worth it.
The current environment the majority of us live by make it even harder to use our brain in a peacefully and constructive way. The belief system that has been indoctrinated to us teach values that go against morals and ethics that nowadays have been covered with dust into oblivion.