Litigation also invites litigants to avoid taking responsibility for their own lives. This also leads people to feel helpless. Litigation tends to foster polarized thought processes. Polarized thinking is recognized to be a cognitive dysfunction in other disciplines, yet the law, or litigation, promotes it. Viewing the world in black and white is not only inaccurate, it is one primary cause of conflict, and conflict destroys human relationships.
Litigation seduces people into fantasizing that there are magic solutions to their problems.
Litigation bolsters fortunate belief that happiness exists externally when in fact happiness exists within oneself. Litigation also cements ill will. I often hear lawyers say a client needs a day in court, or they just need someone to hear them out, or a trial will serve as a catharsis. That is almost never the case. The costs of litigation are indeed enormous.