> It takes extra work and introspection to change states,

If you can't achieve the activation energy needed to change, then staying stuck in that rut is the easiest thing you can do.

If there is actually no choice, it is the easiest, hardest, and only thing you can do.

My personal experience that activation energy comes from knowledge. The process of finding it can be more unpleasant but not necessarily harder

to put it a different way, the decent to rock bottom is painful but easy. Inflection only occurs when and if someone discovers or internalizes something new.

The irony here being that you claim to be a victim to claim the high ground in the debate.

It's like trying to explain water to a fish.

I don't claim moral moral highground based on my personal history.

I claim to be right based on the merits of my argument alone.

Which you claim based on personal history.

My history informs my claim, but I'm not saying that my experience defacto overrides or invalidates any other claim, experiential or otherwise.

Moreover, I specifically don't identify as a victim.

The important thing is that you've figured out a way to be superior to both.

Both what?

Do you not believe that some people are more knowledgeable or can have insights on any topic.

Do you have a point you are trying to make?