Yama
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- Dec 1, 2014
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- MBTI Type
- ESFJ
- Enneagram
- 6w7
- Instinctual Variant
- so/sx
I agree, I think it's true that on average, some types are predisposed to more unhealthy/healthy behaviors on average than others. Although when I point out a messed up behavior that I consistently see in one type, people will always deny that it's related to type and just say that the individual was unhealthy.
Because correlation =/= causation. People are not types. People are people, and types are a label that cannot capture their complexity. Personality type is an archetype that no single person is capable of encapsulating in its entirety; unhealthy behavior that deviates from the archetype is an individual thing. Not to mention the complete reliance on anecdotes as evidence--to say that the type itself is unhealthy, you should be looking at the type's archetype, not a few people you've happened to come across in your lifetime. It's entirely possible that you've just come across the wrong people, or that your own experiences flavor your idea of unhealthy behavior. Not to say that these people who you're typing as xSFJs aren't in the wrong in whatever they did, because I don't know them or what situations you've gone through with them. But once you consider just how little actual evidence there is to slap a few personal examples from one or two people's personal experience onto the entire type's archetype, it becomes absurd. All types are equally capable of being healthy or unhealthy because all types are archetypes that can never box any individual person 100% accurately. I certainly have faith that you will meet healthy examples of the type, if you haven't already without knowing.