If you find that defending your side of an argument is mentally taxing, exhausting, perhaps exhibited by a feeling of animosity or infuriation toward the opposing side, it could be because your side requires doublethink: maintaining a paradoxical viewpoint in your mind.
Knowing this effect could be useful if you recognize these symptoms within yourself. The cause, the actual paradox, might be very deep, beyond your conscious ability (at the moment) to express or comprehend, but these consequent symptoms are far more accessible and obvious.
Inspired by, I'm tired or avoiding arguing this point: go read this instead.
On the other hand, thinking about a non-paradoxical but complicated concept could also be mentally taxing.
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