"all other things being equal, the best plan is to let as few things into your identity as possible" If one is opposed to, for example, the genocide of a peopl

"all other things being equal, the best plan is to let as few things into your identity as possible" If one is opposed to, for example, the genocide of a people of some particular identity, then that strongly held position may itself be an identity, while another group holds as its identity the support of such genocide. One of these identities is essential to progress; the other is detrimental. There is value in a moral identities, and likewise value in opposition to immoral identities. The difference is absolutely consequential, even though many people will fail discern on which side of the line they stand.