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Fearless Leader
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you are one person now.
a year ago, it is likly that you were a very diffrent person.
as that person no longer seems to exist, it is safe to assume that they are dead.
thus, people are like phenoxes: always dying, with someone else rising out of the ashes.
this is nateral and normal and not even unplestant.
these mini-deaths are really just changes in personality, in prespective, in state of mind.
one can not say that it is wrong to induce these changes intensionaly, for one must take some responsibility for who one is,but
it does seem wrong (for rather lengthy reasons) to induce them from the outside, to high-jack ones brain and turn yourself into something that is not truly a product of what you used to be.
to do this is a mini-suicide, and thus, though not as deplorable as suicide, deplorable for the same reasons.
this is why i do not drink
or smoke
or any of the other millions of mind-vices i could indulge in.
because if i am so broken that i can not fix myself,
that my mind must resort to external assistance to get itself back into a state it can live with,
then i am a failure as a person,
and would be better to die a true death.
but
this is a little more cumbersome in practice.
alcohal is a social vice,
would it not be better for my mind to make these things its slave, than abstaining altogether?
can such a thing be done?
ought i not know that of what i speak, such that i could have some defence against it should i ever need it,
which seems likely in this socity?
another puzle of morals that for now is beond me.
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