That's an inaccurate and incendiary paraphrase. It would be just as accurate to say "the truth" should not be sought only to hurt people's feelings, and I think

That's an inaccurate and incendiary paraphrase. It would be just as accurate to say "the truth" should not be sought only to hurt people's feelings, and I think that applies to more people than your formulation, but neither is really the point. The fact is that we're never going to get a definitive answer. If it was a lab leak, there have been too many opportunities to destroy the evidence necessary for a firm conclusion. If it wasn't, then no such evidence ever existed. The most conclusive evidence we could find for any theory is an intermediate host, but even that would show it could have happened that way and not that it did. Pursuing the lab-leak theory more aggressively will not improve the state of scientific knowledge. It might improve the state of scientific practice (e.g. lab safety protocol or advisability of gain-of-function research), but given how much the spotlight has already been on these issues regardless of virus origin I'm skeptical of that too. The only thing driving this is politics, either classic geopolitics or the politics that exist between pathological contrarians and any kind of established experts. It's the latter we're seeing here, day after day after day, and TBH it's a very ugly thing.