The word “just” in “just interacts with shiny things” is giving your parts too little credit, I think. There are a lot of flavors of being attracted to shiny things and some of them look like genuinely poor impulse control but some of them look like trying to avoid feeling pain, or perhaps trying to avoid existing in some sense. Your description isn’t detailed enough for me to say more, though.
Clearly this wasn’t the best description, because the comment was supposed to not be giving the part in quotes much credit. So as you say, the word ‘just’ is needlessly dismissive, but I am dismissing the part of me that is so dismissive!
The word “just” in “just interacts with shiny things” is giving your parts too little credit, I think. There are a lot of flavors of being attracted to shiny things and some of them look like genuinely poor impulse control but some of them look like trying to avoid feeling pain, or perhaps trying to avoid existing in some sense. Your description isn’t detailed enough for me to say more, though.
Clearly this wasn’t the best description, because the comment was supposed to not be giving the part in quotes much credit. So as you say, the word ‘just’ is needlessly dismissive, but I am dismissing the part of me that is so dismissive!
(I added some more detail in another comment)