Posted by pulse on August 14, 2006, at 12:28:13
In reply to Scrupulosity » SLS, posted by Aphrodite on August 14, 2006, at 11:35:26
now you've really got my attention re: the germans and their conviction of scrupulousness re: 'extreme' morality of right vs. wrong.
boy, am i ever locked into that!
this is wild because i just asked my therapist how she felt about the notion of - i'll call it - a more, to much more, 'fluid' type of morality.
i asked because it has become more than obvious to me that my moral views exert an enormous amount of stress on me. btw, i'm quite liberal and anything but a fascist; i'm a realist who used to be an idealist. i so wish i could get back to the idealist, but i believe i'm simply too damaged by life events, NOT of my own making, for that to be possible.
i feel my moral pressures to be quite damaging, yet it's such a catch 22, because 'to thine own self be true' has literally saved my life. i can't see a way to reconcile the two.
pulse
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