vague thought:
there’s a class of apologia which involves explaining the hidden purposes behind things a straw vulcan might dismiss as irrational
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e.g. straw vulcan thinks emotions like anger are ‘irrational’ and bad, apologist explains the purposes that anger serves and the reasons why it exists, concludes that it’s actually useful
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but if you have this level of understanding, can’t you just... do the right thing? if you’re sufficiently aware to understand the memetic/genetic pressures on you to do the right thing, you don’t need those pressures, you can just do the right thing
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relying on stifling the pressures leads to a lot of chronic damage (assuming they don't just break out) imo; steering and guiding them towards the Right Thing lets more firing neurons get in on the action instead of splitting off to spin their wheels (and coagulate into DID)
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mostly the intuition wants to feel like it's being listened to, not necessarily acted upon
hold its hand and it'll walk by your side, watching for opportunities and threats, periodically chiming in with contributions you can accept or reject (and may generally reject)
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tell it to fuck off, smack it whenever it gets close, and it might not come back
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basically, I tried living in a constructed, emotionless system of Right Things to do, and it made me lonely, miserable, and inept at the Good I wanted to do
when HRT woke that intuition up, people started listening to me and the world started working
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