After all, it is often more acceptably in our society to be sick and to seek medical help than it is to admit that one can not cope with the stresses of life.
Even those artists who were most dependent on photography became reluctant to admit that they made use of it, in case this compromised their professional standing.
No language is perfect, and if we admit this truth, we must also admit that it is not unreasonable to investigate the relative merits of different languages or of different details in languages.