It's very frustrating how you can't just reason your way into a sense of self worth.
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Don't worry I'm fine. I'm just annoyed that my feelings don't seem willing to acknowledge how utterly ironclad my argument is.
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Maybe I just need to reason harder. That will work, right?
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These sound like depression tweets but they're mostly laughing at myself tweets. It is admittedly a bit gallows humour.
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Me: OK. Postulate that people have intrinsic worth.
My feelings: Yup, with you so far.
Me: And I am a person.
My feelings: I will concede this point.
Me: Therefore by modus ponens I have intrinsic worth.
My feelings: Sorry, I don't follow.
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honestly sometimes when i work with this stuff the catch actually happens at “i am a person”
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hm, in a buddhist sort of sense?
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not really, more like this:
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"it's so cute the way you pretend to be a real boy. with real feelings. a normal human boy. instead of a bottomless pit of need. instead of a bag of demons, where a person should be. it's just me in here, y'know."
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that's an interesting pointer. something like a type error when it comes to dealing with own needs and other's needs. yea, i feel something here. like other's needs are bounded and reasonable, own needs are beasts that need to be kept on a diet.
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hm promoting flourishing in others vs self seem like related but different tasks now. there's less... micromanaging with others?
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