Having an alter ego can reduce anxiety, benefit confidence: research

Re:Having an alter ego can reduce anxiety, benefit confidenc... by john4534243 on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @04:32PM (#24216005)

> Political ideology is OK but not religious ideology? Right. Religious ideology is without a doubt is exploitation. Political ideology that does not involve religion is probably coming out of good intentions.

> Being a 2nd in command is OK but not a national leader? The point is he is not after power and did not try to become 2nd in command either. He left the minister position he had given after the war and left to another country to start a revolution where he was killed. So looking all these facts he actions must be coming from the noble intentions.

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Re:Having an alter ego can reduce anxiety, benefit confidenc... by lopmotr on Thursday August 20, 2020 @08:55PM (#24230778)

If Guevara did everything the same but instead of Marxism, he was fighting to exterminate the blacks out of a genuine belief that it was a noble cause which would help people, would you still describe him in the same positive way?

You already said you don't like communism, and I guess you don't like ethnic genocide either. So that wouldn't be a distinguishing factor.

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Re:Having an alter ego can reduce anxiety, benefit confidenc... by john4534243 on Sunday August 23, 2020 @08:48AM (#24251525)

> If Guevara did everything the same but instead of Marxism, he was fighting to exterminate the blacks out of a genuine belief that it was a noble cause which would help people, would you still describe him in the same positive way?

I don't see anything noble about genocide.

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Re:Having an alter ego can reduce anxiety, benefit confidenc... by lopmotr on Sunday August 23, 2020 @10:28PM (#24257085)

But we've established that it's not based on you personally believing the goal is noble. It's the belief of the person fighting for it that matters.

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