in the end it’s also not really clear how much it matters if someone has a homunculus in their brain that does notice how they are saying different things to different people, vs. they are just doing it on instinct.
I think from a purely “assess the consequences/predict the behavior” perspective this makes sense. I do think that many people view it as more “wrong” to do the intentional homunculus thing and would be more upset & feel more attacked if someone accused them of this.
Put differently, I think “Alice, you were misleading there” will reliably evoke a different response from Alice compared to “Alice, you were dishonest.” To get more fine-grained:
“Alice, I think you were misleading”– low aggro//most kind
“Alice, I think you [deliberately] lied to me– high aggro//least kind
“Alice, I think you were [deliberately? accidentally?] dishonest”– ambiguous. Could be easily interpreted as the high aggro//least kind version.
I think from a purely “assess the consequences/predict the behavior” perspective this makes sense. I do think that many people view it as more “wrong” to do the intentional homunculus thing and would be more upset & feel more attacked if someone accused them of this.
Put differently, I think “Alice, you were misleading there” will reliably evoke a different response from Alice compared to “Alice, you were dishonest.” To get more fine-grained:
“Alice, I think you were misleading”– low aggro//most kind
“Alice, I think you [deliberately] lied to me– high aggro//least kind
“Alice, I think you were [deliberately? accidentally?] dishonest”– ambiguous. Could be easily interpreted as the high aggro//least kind version.