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This line of thinking is very dangerous. Many people are their worst enemies, and the sole path to wellness is to fight their impulsions and following external
by tuyiown 2y ago
This line of thinking is very dangerous. Many people are their worst enemies, and the sole path to wellness is to fight their impulsions and following external guidance, personalized or general social pressure. They must fight day to day their "inwner workings", not in the aim to feel good in their life, but avoid spiraling in worse situation.
One could say that people ends up in such a dire spot because they ignored or lost how to experience their good feelings and should find their way back to it, but I wouldn't gamble on people's life.
- AnimalMuppet 2y ago> Many people are their worst enemies... True. > ... and the sole path to wellness is to fight their impulsions and following external guidance, personalized or general social pressure. That won't work. There's too much out there, too many people saying too many things. There is some external guidance and social pressure that will point in helpful directions, and there is plenty that won't. (For example, think of beer ads that try to make it "socially cool" to be drinking.) For that matter, people have different impulses, too. Some need to be fought against, and some should be encouraged. So people need something more than their impulses, and something more than society. They need some kind of standard, maybe even some kind of morals. (Maybe that's what you meant by "external guidance"?)