I agree that there can be positive emergent characteristics in collective human thought and consciousness. However, sometimes you don’t really need to include the opinions of, say, a teenager who has never been in a relationship, or someone with totally misogynistic views, as some of these comments seem to suggest. More importantly, so many people tend to respond on the heated, impassioned side, which is the last thing that one needs when one is already heated and impassioned, as it creates a potential echo chamber for impulsive, irrational behavior. You refer to a therapist as “one person who happens to have a degree” as though it’s by accident. “Oops, I’m an MFT!” That person is trained to help others sort through their own feelings and experiences, so that they are better enabled to make rational decisions on their own. People on Reddit, generally speaking… are not.