Another deconflation question: is liking yourself the same as self-esteem?
Esteem seems like an other-regarding attitude rooted in status while like/dislike seems to be about simply enjoying the company of someone (possibly yourself)
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"Self-esteem" is just the term Ayn Rand's jilted ex-lover Nathaniel Branden promoted to persuade the public that egoism was Good Actually
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