Core Principles

[Specter Von Baren]

What would you say are your core principles? The aspects of yourself or other people that you hold in highest regard? The things that make you uniquely you when it comes to values?

I would say mine are, loyalty, a sense of honor, honesty. Honesty is the one I think I hold most closely to how I see the world. Perhaps it's just because of my autism that it is, since I can't read expressions like so many other people seem to be able to easily, it's why I feel incensed when someone that isn't autistic lacks empathy or sympathy for others because of how hard and long I've had to work to get to where I am in my ability to interact with people.

Honesty feels like something that should be considered more important than it is by most people. If you aren't straight with someone, if you fudge around with your information, then there's no way to properly attempt to fix something. I can't tell if a compliment is genuine or if someone is just trying to be nice to me, and so compliments roll off my back nine times out of ten. I want people to be honest with when I'm annoying them or I'm an asshole so I can know when I need to try to fix myself.

I hate being manipulated by people, it's abhorrent to do so and I feel anyone that does so is taking a huge gamble due to how unpredictable people and their reactions can be. I also feel that I haven't developed certain important skills just from the fear that I could use them to manipulate others.

I'm certainly not a saint or anything, it's not like I don't lie, but whenever I realize I'm lying or giving a half truth or withholding all the facts, I feel sick with myself. The world around me seems to pressure me to take those kinds of actions in order to satisfy it and keep myself safe and happy, and I hate it for that because it feels to me that nothing can truly change if everyone dances around with their words and meanings.

 

[Baffle]

Treat others as you would like to be treated yourself. Do not let people down.

(These are both principles that will ultimately not work in your favour, because most people are dickheads.)

 

[09philj]

1. There's not much point engaging with the unknowable.
2. Pleasure is good.

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

"Ere it harm none, 'do as thou wilt' shall be the whole of the law."

 

[Drathnoxis]

"Ere it harm none, 'do as thou wilt' shall be the whole of the law."

Interestingly specific phrasing. Is this meant to signify your adherence to some sort of occult practice? Or do you just agree with the philosophy despite the historical connotations?

 

[XsjadoBlayde]

Harm reduction. Empathy encouragement. Pleasure (or quality of life, for a less loaded term) maximisation.

Used to be more bothered about dishonesty, but ppl lie so much about so many silly little things for often silly reasons that it's too much energy to care about. And I've met so many ppl who claim they're "just too honest" as a way to excuse indulging in acting on their more selfish and unpleasant impulses, all while hiding actual disturbing secrets of their personality and actions from everyone.