what's complex? she causes problems that's pretty simple
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virtue ethics, deontology, utilitarian - this archetype is a failure by any standard
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You're not seeing it from the inside, so to speak, from what the experience feels like and what art about it can mean to people who have either gone through that phase or known people who did.
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There are things I did in my life that felt complex on the inside but were immoral, these points are not at odds. In fact, there's a theory that says much of immorality is just that--the external representation of inconsistent internal state.
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Replying to @orthonormalist @sonyasupposedly and
As a specific example: I basically left my college girlfriend hanging for a month while I tried to figure out what to do, because I was confused. Complex? Yes. Uncertain? Yes. Amoral? Absolutely. Was it excused by her equivalently bad behavior? Nope.
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exactly. the phrase "flawed but lovable" is half right. Or, stated another way, the "lovable" part is often used (perhaps with intention, perhaps not) as a trap, to keep the victims in the blast zone.
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Replying to @MorlockP @orthonormalist and
(and, no, before there's any cheap psychoanalysis, I've never been a victim of this particular flavor of crap-show ; I've just seen women around me at various jobs do it)
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Replying to @MorlockP @orthonormalist and
All of this is filed under pre-packaged discussion 83-f: person: "it's complicated" me: "people always say 'it's complicated', but it never is"
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Replying to @MorlockP @orthonormalist and
9 times out of 10 "complication" is a "code smell" of epicycles (i.e. bullshit) things are sometimes hard, but they're almost always simple
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Montaigne says this is the root of vice. Hume says complication feels like such on the inside, but is often predictable on the outside. Emerson says to stop quoting eminent writers like their thoughts mean anything.
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Huh! Had no idea that anyone had said the same. Good references; thanks.
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The Inconstancy of Our Actions: http://essays.quotidiana.org/montaigne/inconstancy_of_our_actions/ … Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: https://www.earlymoderntexts.com/assets/pdfs/hume1748.pdf … (Search: "We overlook the fact that")
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