Grail
I have NPD, so I understand a lot of that. What I’m missing is an ego. My parents didn’t give Me one. I had to make My own, and it’s crap. It kept on falling apart every time it suffered a little knock, so I made it huge with lots of redundancies. Problem is, a lot of neurotypicals are personally offended by a big ego. They think My internal thoughts are an abuse against them. My NPD wouldn’t be a disability if everyone else could just get used to My private personal coping mechanisms.
Well, I don’t know if you read My article about supporting Biden, but I made it very clear that any support for the Democrats should be fake, not real. I think that’s generally how other soulists feel about the issue too. Nobody wants to genuinely support the Democrats, it’s just a means to prevent genocide. I for one take genocide very seriously and can’t do nothing about it. If I’m understanding the other side’s position on this issue, I think this might be an issue of us disagreeing on the inaction vs inaction problem. See, I view making a choice not to act as a form of action. Morally equivalent to an action of equal effect. It seems to Me that a lot of the more moderately inclined people on this issue who prefer inaction, are doing so because you think a slightly bad action is worse than a really bad inaction.
So we’re back to utilitarianism as the deciding factor. The soulist only cares about the consequences. They don’t care if one choice means doing something and one means doing nothing. But the deontologist has personal rules against doing a bad thing. Doing nothing, that’s fine. And if nothing turns out to have a worse outcome than something, so be it. The utilitarian disagrees. They’ll sacrifice their principles to achieve a better outcome for the victims of genocide. They only care about the result.
Soulists do not believe in social contract theory. The social contract was invented by Enlightenment philosopher John Locke, the “father of liberalism”. Locke was a capitalist. Soulists are anarchists. We don’t like liberals.
When it comes to Soulists, you’re more likely to find utilitarians among our ranks. We punch Nazis not because Nazis violate the social contract, but because Nazis threaten to bring genocide and war. While a social contract theorist would happily deal with a Nazi who was polite, well-mannered, and followed all the rules, a Soulist would not. A Soulist would pull out the baseball bat and tell the Nazi to get the fuck out, no matter how well the Nazi follows the social contract.
Thank you! I would like to clarify that I don’t mean ASPD people are apolitical in their choices. Only in their instincts. Lacking the instincts for politics, your every action in relation to politics is purposeful. In some ways you have far more choice than a neurotypical. You have the negative freedom to make your own political choices without your instincts interfering. But, on the other hand, you lack the positive freedom of instincts to help you in politics.
You have the potential, I should say, to be apolitical in a way a neurotypical could never hope to match. A neurotypical doesn’t get a choice, they have to be political. The least explicit politics they can manage is centrism, while still having tons of implicit politics. You could go far beyond that. I’d like it if you didn’t, though.
It’s so weird that we have a culture that treats teaching pride to children as a bad thing.
https://medium.com/@viridiangrail/why-reactionaries-hate-pride-and-narcissists-938d39261f13
They paywalled My articles? They’re not supposed to do that, I have monetisation disabled! I can’t see a paywall in incognito mode, can you share a screenshot of the paywall?
Until I get this sorted out, here’s an alternative frontend