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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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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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It seems to me like the best way to change is to act in increments, not to worry about what is and isn't as we would like it to be.

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yes, but if you can do that you're 3/4s of the way there. The hard stuff is the stuff you can't not worry about.

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Fair point. The hardest parts are the earliest and the last . letting in and letting go.