The Moral Realm

If you don’t want to do it, if you don’t gain an intense amount of energy from social interactions, then you’re simply not an extrovert. Extroverts gain energy from social interactions. Introverts lose energy through social interactions. This doesn’t mean that extroverts are necessarily good at socializing or that introverts are bad at it. Neither way of being is morally superior to the other one.

People increasingly try to turn things that are physiological into a morality play. It’s bizarre. In the meantime, things that actually do lie in the moral sphere are extracted from it by appeals to individual choice. Many people sincerely believe that something that just happens to you and you cannot choose speaks to your moral character when things that you choose freely do not.

2 thoughts on “The Moral Realm

  1. Why do they think a group gathering being enjoyable involves “heavy lifting” on the part of anybody other than the host? People in groups spontaneously begin talking to each other because they enjoy it. There is no central figure directing everyone. If this person is ending up in large groups of reluctant, taciturn people who won’t talk without prodding, perhaps they should take the hint and leave them be.

    I’m not even really an extrovert, but I may be more extroverted than this person, since talking to other people at a party is easy and enjoyable for me.

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  2. Many people sincerely believe that…

    I’d say it’s more of an American thing, and something that people infected with the American psychological mindset do.

    In other parts of the world people tend not to psychologise things so much.

    It also shows how feminised American society has become, which explains the prevalence of groupthink.

    Europe is cooked, but America is f*cked.

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