stoic
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I was leaning towards the idea that people make mistakes and are impulsive, and it's easy to believe in leading people towards what feel like more favourable ways of living life and acting in the world, which I know well.
But it's also easy to get trapped into high-minded ideas about what would be best for a person, and not looking at myself while doing so, bringing that awkward detachment from engaging with life.
In essence, don't stress too much about whether people are ignorant or succumbing to temptations or etc..; there's more information than ever in a time where people are less equipped to use it. Daily irritations with the arrogance and pettiness of those around us, while also being ourselves part of that arrogance and pettiness de temps en temps.
It's a..nuance and a flimsy one at that. Act in one way and impose upon others your lessons which may be for their benefit, or maybe leave it and let them sort it out for themselves (it's their life afterall). To say it's contextual is a gross reductionism, but it's the only one language allows.
We can have lasting impacts on one another, regardless of what theories about people we subscribe to. It's phenomenological & to some extent I don't know if anyone has ever hurt me so much that I should drop my unravalling's on them because I believe it will be a path to giving them a better life in some form or another.
It's highly ironic (in the most paranoid sense) to attempt to call to light the ideas of introspection, only to follow it's extremes and find the limitations of rationality staring you in the face. And come back to ancient intuitions from childhood, un-abstracted by the trapped memories of time.
We are scum and we are saints. Often both at the same time; that's paradox for you.
This is much better articulated. It would seem that your paradox can be applied to everything. Much like the concept of relativism, no matter what we do or believe we'll always be a victim to our own subjective. To believe a certain path is righteous for yourself is very well and fine. Like you said, it's when you look to conceptualize someone else's path to righteousness, where lies the trouble. So then I'd suppose Fe is foolish if you have any bias or predicate on what is righteous for a person or community since there is no objective truth. From a non-philosophical standpoint adhering to communal righteousness creates that bias and expectancy for the people. In that way, we could believe in a collective righteous moral code. Do we help people abide with acceptance to that for their happiness? Take the victim mentality of the post-modern era. If you met someone who claimed to be oppressed by society. How would you propose a solution to relieve them from feeling victimized? Or, would you let it be?