I find it interesting, I think that I have classified the two personality traits that I really don't like. They are both kinds of disrespect, one is elitist in nature and the other is a disestablishmentarianistic attitude. Most bad qualities seem to fall under these titles.
On elitism, or top-down disrespect, it is interesting to me how one can justify treating another person with distain on the grounds of "I am older/more experienced/more skilled at ___" or any variation of these, for the axioms that they are accepting on bad faith are any or all of the following:
(1) the value of the person is based on that skill or trait
(2) that this relationship is static
(3) that to feel good about self/talent/trait one has to have people of lesser quality (both quality[value] and quality[ability])
These assumptions are inherently flawed, as they propetuate a societal pecking order and cause stagnation.
On disestablishmentarianism, or grassroots disrespect, we find a mentality of "The bad things in life come from those who try to control us" These people assume any or all of the following:
(1) structure is unescessary, or counterproductive
(2) people who support structure are either misinformed or corrupt
(3) the emotional benefits of sucess in the system do not outweigh the cost of conforming, or the act of conforming is inherently detrimental to the conformee
Other reasons and the refutations of these are left as an excercise for the reader, as a true mathematician would leave them to be primogenitors to other questions.
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I hate to sound like a spammer, but I still think you would get along with the ideas in Rational-Emotive Behavior Therapy. I'm not saying you need therapy, it just could be interesting to see how someone else has played with similar ideas.
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