I have often wondered about a related topic—why some people feel threatened by reason, or get angry when you ask them to be reasonable.
This goes even so far (this has actually happened) that people get upset with me because I “impose reasonableness on myself”. I would get called cold, distant, heartless (even if I’m, say, crying, which would traditionally be counted as indicating a rather strong emotional response) just because I won’t throw a tantrum—which, on the surface one might think would be in their interest—so why the heck get angry about it?
My best idea so far is that they don’t like the heightened standards, feel that they will apply to them too and want to blur things out so they stay comfortably uncertain.
I’ve been told to “cut myself some slack”, to “not be so harsh to myself” (in situations where I seriously don’t think that was called for) and when I said “I don’t need slack, I need an answer” or “I’m not hard on myself just because I say what I just did was wrong” or somesuch, I would just get a frustrated look in return.
Let’s say, these observations are what I would expect to see happen when people actually want as low pixle resolution as possible, so no mistakes can be called out, and desire strongly to live in the world where we’re all equal but I’m entitled to all kinds of special treatmendt and I deserve all kinds of things but don’t have to earn them and there are no dumb questions—ever! - and left is right when I feel like it, and crystals and love in harmony for eternity amen.
I have often wondered about a related topic—why some people feel threatened by reason, or get angry when you ask them to be reasonable.
This goes even so far (this has actually happened) that people get upset with me because I “impose reasonableness on myself”. I would get called cold, distant, heartless (even if I’m, say, crying, which would traditionally be counted as indicating a rather strong emotional response) just because I won’t throw a tantrum—which, on the surface one might think would be in their interest—so why the heck get angry about it?
My best idea so far is that they don’t like the heightened standards, feel that they will apply to them too and want to blur things out so they stay comfortably uncertain.
I’ve been told to “cut myself some slack”, to “not be so harsh to myself” (in situations where I seriously don’t think that was called for) and when I said “I don’t need slack, I need an answer” or “I’m not hard on myself just because I say what I just did was wrong” or somesuch, I would just get a frustrated look in return.
Let’s say, these observations are what I would expect to see happen when people actually want as low pixle resolution as possible, so no mistakes can be called out, and desire strongly to live in the world where we’re all equal but I’m entitled to all kinds of special treatmendt and I deserve all kinds of things but don’t have to earn them and there are no dumb questions—ever! - and left is right when I feel like it, and crystals and love in harmony for eternity amen.