Fruiteloop
Community Member
- MBTI
- INFP
I believe that because of how many time you have debated people online that you have somehow grouped certain people as being this way or that way from experience of some of the stuff you learned about them from those debates. In other words you now have in your mind a system of grouping or archetypes of the way people are. This is common way of thinking but neglects that each individual is not a category or can be attributed to groups in the way they have been.
I can see that because this might be the case it would be a form of unconscious stereotyping. All theists are like x or all liberals or all conservatives or all Christians or Jews or all people, that do not believe what I believe. You are searching for reasons why people act as they do, but you make it explicit and thus cannot relate to people at their level.
I will not say this way of thinking is bad. It is simply how your mind works to categorizes people by your experience. However it causes trouble because people do not want to be thought of as groups or archetypes or stereotypes. That is rare when it comes to such debates that we say: your team is x and so you are x. That be politics and not exactly what happens inside the person unless they feel attached to a team.
If I was to say that some kinds of things can be known by MBTI as example I could say such but its a limited tool. It gives us something to use but its a hammer and not everything is a nail. Same with religion is that even if some truths are in it it cannot be used outside the domain is is prescribed for. So if we say use that tool outside its domain we create false impression of what it means to be this or that religion. Religion can then be used to justify anything its not appropriate for. It can then be used by people to condemn them because everyone who is not in it is evil or wrong or whatever the religion says about outsiders. That is why most people reject it because people are individuals. Only in certain mindsets is it that people are all the same. That have everyone of x is always y but ignore the rest of the alphabet.
In more other words you are seeing things in a collectivist way. Individualism says verities of people beliefs and ideas exist and no one is cookie cutter so to speak. We are not all of the same mold. that treats people as objects on a manufacturing line. Not as beings who have had different life experiences. Collectivist thinking is not bad either it just doesn't work in contexts where people are aware of those circumstances outside the lines of normal cultural thinking.
I may have made a mistake saying things the way I have with emotional charge but to me being treated as an individual is most important from a cultural stance. I have thoughts and feelings and I am not an ant in an ant colony. I am not a stereotype or anything that my bring up race, creed or religion in the negative of all those people are an only X. You would not say that because I am partially black that I am a certain way or think a certain way. Where was I born, what languages do I know, how did my parents teach me to believe and relate to others. None of this is indicated by me saying I am partial black. You would be far removed to say You are not a Christian because of partial blackness so why say: you wanted intellectual stuff so became a jew. It has no context no regard for the individual it simply means you have no idea what a person is because of some idea in your head of them. Maybe I like KFC but I also like McDonalds and whatever else I like but its what I like and no one else. Reasoning is the same. Not everyone will reason the same if they believe the other person is not listening. People will not listen if you put them in a group of such and such. All atheist/whoever else reason like X
So basically the system of categorizations you learned have failed. It is a way of thinking that can be good in general but specifically individuals reason learn think speak and act in contexts of the life the had and what they are on the inside. The outside may show some things about them but it will not show everything. In the limitations of what can be written and shown here I will say that I hope to see people as people not groups even if thinking in group terms is what other do its not what I do. I try to avoid it as much as people. On the surface we could say I like brand X and so the recommendation engine will give me advertisements of brand Y - this is fine but always its halfway wrong. people are flawed when they think of others just like the algorithm is. No matter how much life experience you have had with people or a topic you can always be wrong is some way that matters to the people you interact with.
I hope I haven't said anything offensive, this is in general terms of how people and systems operate. When I took a shower I felt like vomiting because I self triggered my own PTSD - I was shocked by my responses earlier because I know I can become out of control emotionally. It was just that I do not believe anyone should think things of others that is not true because that leads to projection and especially if we are saying things about others the public sees as not true, in public others will call us out on it eventually as social workings happen in group dynamics.
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