fi is not just about being emotional though. it's about being individualistic too. believing in personal rights so it may make us stand firm and protect that right against those who would choose to take it from us.
true, but it's not always actual real rights or generally held rights, so much as things you personally believe are your rights or should be your rights. see the distinction?
Say for example, not having a violent crime committed against you - that's an actual, real and generally held right that nobody could reasonably dispute against.
But Fi can also perceive lots things as "inalienable rights" that are actually more to do with their personal preferences and unique individual values. These would be those times when you say things like "But I have a RIGHT to know!" in a very rhetorical way, as if to say that nobody would dispute that or see things differently, when in fact they might well do so.
What I said earlier about INFP's vs ENFP's was referring to this sort of thing, that I get a general impression that INFP's are more able to discern and be aware of when it's an
actual right that's been violated, and therefore worth getting het up about and contesting, and when it's a
perceived right that's been violated, one that it doesn't go without saying that everyone would automatically know is important or a value to you, and so should be addressed more cautiously and with more flexibility.
(just speculating again)
I do try always to be tactful, and remind myself why I'm in a conflict in the first place, which is for both parties to be heard and understood, and for a resolution to be reached. Otherwise, it's just a brawl, and I'm not interested in unproductive arguing.
Jeno - do you have a count for how many times people have tried to take your card away? Don't you print these cards in your basement?
Guess I'll have to settle for mind-melding with Ni folks instead.
