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Thanks, my lizard brain is already making these decisions by default, but your words validate my behavior.

All I will say is be sure to take your vitamin d in the cold months

I would do X too if I was in the same situation, with the same genes, and the same upbringing, and same circumstances, and same influences, and same traumas, and same biases.

You couldn't have changed your behavior if you tried

I'll bite, what does it say about me?

Behavior dictates the outward expression of inner motives.

Correct, but you can't control your motives as much as you like. Think as much as you want about this.

To assume that everyone would make the same choices, when presented with the same opportunities, is simply not congruent to the patterns of human behavior that we see in reality, regardless of era or culture.

Show me what patterns you've seen, but from my personal experience and reflection, this is incorrect. We can't control the opportunities, and we can't control our motives, hence we can't control our behavior. You will do what you were gonna do.

Excellent point!

Polish your mirror and look deep, you are the universe as am I, as was Gandhi and as is Putin, capable of all good and all evil, all shaped by life like a rock shaped by a river. The rock has no choice but to take that shape. The rock is special but no more so than any other rock, so don't assume you'd do any different if you were in their situation.

If you dig up a skeleton, can you tell if that person was evil or charitable in his lifetime? We're all merely copies of each other and are equally capable of all the good and all the bad in the world depending on our individual circumstances and upbringings. Nothing is black and white and everything is gray. You'd be Putin too if you were in his shoes.

Man can be free only when and if he's able to rise above his insecurities

This quarter's top line might not be looking great, so gotta improve the bottom line to impress the Wall Street analysts.

Yep, ASD. We are intelligent. We are perfectionists. We take our sweet time to learn about the world around us. Once we've learnt about something, we are quite sure of it, & hence we're strongly opinioniated on things we know. Stupidity, and not being able to see things correctly may even 'trigger' us, & hence we can come across as arrogant. We can see the forest for the trees, but we lose our minds because the rest of the world only sees the trees for the trees.

You sound like someone on the ASD spectrum - honest, principled, not confirming to social norms, overthinking. You had to mask to survive, yes, so obviously there is a facade, but that don't make you a thief. You are thoughtful & intelligent, & capable of using logic to steer the conversation, but that don't make you manipulative. You are honest man with morals, how can you not be kind? Why don't you consider yourself a nice person?