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Or being confident about disliking reading in general, whether be it fiction or scientific literature.

Doesn't this depend on the stylistic environment of the text? Personally, I'd consider it alright given that the sender and the receiver are in a casual relationship. It only makes one seem uneducated if they are using it in a more formal, or perhaps a public context.

Just think - if the world took off the shackles and Ukraine no longer cared about the moral high ground [...]

My issue with this assumption is that removing moral shackles from one side of the war, the other wouldn't care so much afterwards either. In practice this would mean that Putin would think of using nuclear weapons far more often than it would be okay. I believe this war has an element that is kind of like a careful dance around the red button that could destroy most of Europe, if not the world.

I absolutely hated almost all vegetables and legumes when I was younger. After I started forcing myself to eat them regardless of my opinion - since they are indispensable - I found that I have been disliking them on a mental basis, and just simply eating them has undone my hatred for vegetables.

Russian civil war avoided, but I wonder whether these events will have permanent effects on the country’s stability…