Yep, but you see, there’s a difference between “mere” emotional anguish, which is, after all, biologically constrained in a way, and identity-related problems (which, as I understand it, can ruin a person precisely by using their “normal” state, with conscious voiced thoughts, as a carrier). It’s mostly bad to feel bad about yourself, but to know bad about yourself—seemingly in the empirical sense, just like you know there’s a monitor in front of you—is even worse.
Not everyone would see this in my phrase; I should’ve elaborated.
Yep, but you see, there’s a difference between “mere” emotional anguish, which is, after all, biologically constrained in a way, and identity-related problems (which, as I understand it, can ruin a person precisely by using their “normal” state, with conscious voiced thoughts, as a carrier). It’s mostly bad to feel bad about yourself, but to know bad about yourself—seemingly in the empirical sense, just like you know there’s a monitor in front of you—is even worse.
Not everyone would see this in my phrase; I should’ve elaborated.