You're awfully Ni-oriented for an ISFP, aren't you? Are you the Fi+Ni kind?
Thank you for the wubbie. But I don't know what Ni or Fi mean. Lots of things interest me, but not those. It's been enough for me to see the differences in people so nicely supported and accepted through a system. I like that. Tolerance.
I tested INTJ in a college psychology class and ENFP in a career development class decades later. Descriptions of ISFPs sound like me. I'll just go with that.
Anyway, though that's not what I meant, it's a pretty clever sidestep. I think we both know I'm talking about greater overall ability to deal with others and live life happily when I say balancing the functions is "advantageous"--I mean directly advantageous to every individual human, not just advantageous to the species' overall survival at the cost of personal disadvantage, as you've implied.
"pretty clever sidestep" = play. And = an appreciation for how big-picture thinking (for instance, species-thinking coming before individual-thinking) actually changes quality of life.
As fun as toying with different meanings of the word "advantageous" when taken out of context is, I have to ask--do you have a point?
Mostly just play. Although, a case could be made for my being irritated with what appear to me to be put-downs, or at least some level of default dismissiveness, in your posts to others, causing me to post.
However, that's my problem, not yours. And my irritation probably just means that I do the same thing in some way. I'll just have to figure out how, and fix it. So, thank you.
Carry on! If I occasionally post in this thread, it's just because, well, I started the darn thing and I'm still subscribed.