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Okay, better put: freedom from something inherent to you is meaningless, freedom from something you cling to is volitional and arbitrary.

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you have no nature. Your conditioning/biology are contingent and necessary to operate in the world, but changeable.

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Either way, it's a pointless exercise in angst to worry about what you feel and desire. Act differently or don't. That's all there is to it.

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unfortunately, worrying about what you feel or desire is also a feeling, and willpower alone won't stop unpleasant feelings.

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you're not wrong, per se, but changing conditioning is hard, and it isn't as simple as "just stop" or "just do it".

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Granted. I don't mean to say that it's simple, rather that most of the mental activity surrounding it is wasteful.