You might be right; in which case there’s no underlying motivational mechanism, and no reason not to split off any one behavior (whether SM or being Bruce) and eliminate it if we choose to, without fear of harming our enjoyment of the others.
That would be disappointing, because if there is an underlying mechanism, it would have interesting psychological and ethical consequences. (I’m biased towards conclusions that have more consequences. Is that an irrational but useful bias?)
You might be right; in which case there’s no underlying motivational mechanism, and no reason not to split off any one behavior (whether SM or being Bruce) and eliminate it if we choose to, without fear of harming our enjoyment of the others.
That would be disappointing, because if there is an underlying mechanism, it would have interesting psychological and ethical consequences. (I’m biased towards conclusions that have more consequences. Is that an irrational but useful bias?)