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I read this the same way. I didn’t know I could recognize punchable faces via text.

PaulHoule 3y ago
Whatever. I have an intact superego. The third to last time I saw a therapist I was misdiagnosed as "adjustment disorder with conduct concerns" in the first session but the therapist took that back when he got to know me and realized I do have a reasonable moral sense (it is one thing to cut in line, it is another to steal money, do property damage, deceive people, etc.) Now the second to last time I saw a therapist we got along well but she got kicked out by betterhelp. The last therapist I saw unfortunately did meet my evil twin who was out at the time and I would say my behavior was over the line at that time but it was part of an extraordinary situation that didn't last very long and I can't imagine being repeated because I discovered what my secret was within a year of that crisis breaking. She fired me. I haven't gotten a real diagnosis for my schizotypy because it is so bad in 2023, my primary care doc gave me 10 referrals, none were taking new patients, I emailed people who'd written review articles and books on schizotypy for referrals, they said they'd get back to me but they didn't, etc.
- c22 3y ago
  > I do have a reasonable moral sense (it is one thing to cut in line, it is another to steal money, do property damage, deceive people, etc.) You said yourself you cut in line by manipulating people's attention (deception). Also, the people who are ahead of you in line got there before you did because they left their house earlier, or didn't spend so much time fucking around in the dairy aisle, or whatever. When you cut in line you are stealing time from them that they could otherwise use on something else before they run out of it and die. How is this more acceptable than damaging physical property, which some social frameworks would contend can't even be "owned" by individuals? Your moral framework is not self-consistent.
- RoyalHenOil 3y ago
  In my experience, people who are assholes in small ways are almost always also assholes in very big ways as well; they just don't know it. They don't have a strong ability to reason ethically and consider the risks and ramifications of their actions, so instead they learn a lot of social rules (e.g., it's wrong to steal, it's wrong to hit women, etc.) and think it means that they are a moral person where it matters. However, when good behavior or bad behavior is not directly spelled out to them like that, they cannot easily differentiate between them and often select the bad behavior. When I meet someone who is an asshole in small ways, I quietly put them on the list of people I do not trust or respect. I make sure they do not know I feel this way about them (due to not trusting them), but I take steps to undermine their ability to do harm in the world: I subtly discourage mutual friends from becoming close to them, I subtly push against them being promoted into managerial positions, I subtly warn friends who have crushes on them, etc.

Whatever. I have an intact superego. The third to last time I saw a therapist I was misdiagnosed as "adjustment disorder with conduct concerns" in the first session but the therapist took that back when he got to know me and realized I do have a reasonable moral sense (it is one thing to cut in line, it is another to steal money, do property damage, deceive people, etc.) Now the second to last time I saw a therapist we got along well but she got kicked out by betterhelp. The last therapist I saw unfortunately did meet my evil twin who was out at the time and I would say my behavior was over the line at that time but it was part of an extraordinary situation that didn't last very long and I can't imagine being repeated because I discovered what my secret was within a year of that crisis breaking. She fired me. I haven't gotten a real diagnosis for my schizotypy because it is so bad in 2023, my primary care doc gave me 10 referrals, none were taking new patients, I emailed people who'd written review articles and books on schizotypy for referrals, they said they'd get back to me but they didn't, etc.

c22 3y ago
> I do have a reasonable moral sense (it is one thing to cut in line, it is another to steal money, do property damage, deceive people, etc.) You said yourself you cut in line by manipulating people's attention (deception). Also, the people who are ahead of you in line got there before you did because they left their house earlier, or didn't spend so much time fucking around in the dairy aisle, or whatever. When you cut in line you are stealing time from them that they could otherwise use on something else before they run out of it and die. How is this more acceptable than damaging physical property, which some social frameworks would contend can't even be "owned" by individuals? Your moral framework is not self-consistent.
RoyalHenOil 3y ago
In my experience, people who are assholes in small ways are almost always also assholes in very big ways as well; they just don't know it. They don't have a strong ability to reason ethically and consider the risks and ramifications of their actions, so instead they learn a lot of social rules (e.g., it's wrong to steal, it's wrong to hit women, etc.) and think it means that they are a moral person where it matters. However, when good behavior or bad behavior is not directly spelled out to them like that, they cannot easily differentiate between them and often select the bad behavior. When I meet someone who is an asshole in small ways, I quietly put them on the list of people I do not trust or respect. I make sure they do not know I feel this way about them (due to not trusting them), but I take steps to undermine their ability to do harm in the world: I subtly discourage mutual friends from becoming close to them, I subtly push against them being promoted into managerial positions, I subtly warn friends who have crushes on them, etc.