violet_crown
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Feeling for things on my own. When I think about issues, there is no "internal" feeling comes from within. I get it from external sources, and my inner logic helps me see what is the moral issue. I think Fe users lie if they say they aren't influenced by the people around them when it comes to moral issues. You hear that? While some may come from your own logic, ultimately we like to see what's best for everyone. Not necessarily always what is "true" like perhaps someone who has just left religion (maybe because the community didn't make the Fe user feel included or worthy in his/her role) would start supporting the liberal attitude of free sexuality to better support the environment, and forget the belief/idea that sex has a sacred or a strong moral meaning, but rather what do the people want? It's almost a cultural morality. I do get internal feelings from within once in a great while, but usually we are feeling what has been established by the public's opinions and values. You Fi users help us that way on issues that need to be addressed that are possible, like bullying, or hurting on the weak, it's a complex relationship. Fi supplies the morality, Fe filters and establishes. Kind of like in another way Ne supplies the ideas, Ni picks and develops the idea if considered worthy for the Ni user's focus. Te brings the goals and order, Ti helps improve the system. Se explores, Si picks.
That's not what I was saying.
It's like this: Fe works based off a "parliment" where the external world and all of it's many factors each have a seat. It's a team. They deliberate, discuss, and weigh out all this subjectivity in the fairest and most objective way that can be done. Then, the parliment votes. Depending on the vote, dictates how it's done. Sometimes a single piece will give a speech, and debate with another one. Others, that's not needed and a simple revote is given. Once decided, the commander makes it so.
It's the parliment that runs the show, the "leader" just listens to what they parliment says and makes it happen.
In otherwords, Fe is of many minds.
I think what I'm gathering from these responses is that the biggest difference between Fi and Fe is scope.
For an Fi-user, the "whole" is defined at an individual level, whereas for Fe it is defined at a group level. The way that an Fi user feels about the body is the way that an Fe user feels about the community, which is why they (Fe) users place less emphasis on individual opinion. Because you guys don't understand the individual as such, but like a drop of water in the ocean or something. So the concept of Fi probably seems very weird and narrow to you guys.
Is this a fair interpretation of what has been expressed so far?