Explain self-loathing to me. I get misery and I get wanting to die but I don’t get self-hatred.
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If you experience self-loathing and you suddenly had access to first-person information from another person would you hate them too?
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is this a rethorical reductio ad absurdum or something to which I can answer yes?
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I was actually trying to understand something and shockingly I got a bunch of smart replies????
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that's a(nother) beautifully formulated question. Tentative answer: no unless "information" means having to endure what that person endures.
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that seems important and I will have to give it thought
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It's a form of cognitive dissonance that results when one's own actions are different than their desired actions. Someone in the grip of a serious addiction might experience self-loathing as means of accounting for why they seem to lack agency when they have an illusion of agency
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This extends to other cases, like -Why is my life not the way I want it to be? -[As a result of some stimulus or not] Maybe the reason is me -Even believing that the reason is me, my life is not the way I want it to be -I hate myself for doing this to me
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Imagine thinking knitting is super cool and you should be knitting, but you can't for a dumb reason that's all your fault
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i don't experience a lot of self-loathing but i do find myself viscerally disliking people who are objectively quite similar to me
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