This 100%. Psychoanalysis would have us believe that morality and strategy are basically the same thing: we think we have these moral codes, but in actuality wh

This 100%. Psychoanalysis would have us believe that morality and strategy are basically the same thing: we think we have these moral codes, but in actuality what we have is an internalized version of our parents. As someone who’s almost the age of his parents when they had him, I know by now that most of what i was taught as a moral code (don’t eat too much candy, do your homework, don’t hit people) was actually just a strategy that was too long-term for young, infant me to genuinely understand: Don’t eat too much candy because it’s important to be healthy, Do your homework for good education and social recognition, don’t hit people because no one will like you if you do and that will cause all kinds of problems. The modern media would have us believe that strategy and morality are opposed to each other, but seems to me like that’s just the exact opposite of the truth