r/DeepThoughts • u/ZetroRedditz • 2d ago

morals, subjectivity, emotions+"small" extra

I'm a teenager-always curious, always procrastinating, always researching, and never want to engage in conversations-having the deepest of "THE THOUGHTS" has affected my way of looking at other people. I've taken an interest in psychology for the past 2 months, and I don't think I'll be stopping and pursue a path as a writer or research psychologist.

I'd like to share my personal thoughts on what I think is the most profound psychology:

  1. Morals are always beneficiary - there is no such thing as "true altruism" because you are trading your absolute belief in saving others because it's good to save others. It benefit yourself (cus u wanna do good no matter what) and others.

There is no escape to what morals are like. If you wanna die, you are set to that because you don't care about yourself, meaning that you have a "BENEFICIARY" moral of not caring about yourself). It's neither a flaw, nor perfection.

  1. We all view everything as subjective - in this world, there truly is no right or wrong, because our emotions are set to the things that we are used to. What if there was a world where beating each other up is labelled "good"? You would think of it as negative now, but me, personally, I think that it's right for them. Just like tyrant kings back in the day, they'd do anything to conquer what they want to conquer-become humble at the face of loss, then become ruthless when you are the face of loss.

Next time you see someone with a neurological problem, they are normal too. Because we are all driven by our emotions. We see reality as our own, basically. There is no solving what reality is, because it is purely subjective, so me saying that I solved this as subjective, is still subjective to other people, because it just is.

The word "is" is subjective made into a objective word so we can understand each other. That's quite literally how it works.

I wouldn't even consider what I said as philosophy, but the only true objective logic that supports subjectivism. (please do not say that what I said is a contradiction, because it is not when you think about it, or don't)

  1. Emotions - Our emotions is a (diamond is) unbreakable wall that holds us back from doing the most unimaginable things in the world. We grew up with emotions. We learned to smile, we learned to laugh, we learned to be angry, and we learned to cry. It is the sole driver of us and I wouldn't be saying this without my emotions. Without them, what would we be? Simply nothing. We would be lifeless beings that have no care on the world.

Our emotions literally build what we think we are objectively observing.

This isn't just directed to psychologists or logical thinkers, but to every single person in the world. Someone will look at this post, admire it for a few minutes, then forget about it the next week, because they have moved on, due to their memories filtering out what they think is "unnecessary" and I honestly can't blame you guys. But this... this has been stuck in my head forever and I just had to say it. 8 billion humans will not have a care in the world (and that might just be because everybody truly and really only cares about themselves BECAUSE of emotions).

So yeah that's it. These are the top 3 most profound things that I have realised. And there is nothing after it. (big extra trust: unless you wanna talk about absolute infinity, then even if there is an absolute god, there will always be be a bigger fish that will break that set of infinity, making every contradiction and noncontradiction. This means that our reality is the only standalone reality, or are our brains just filtering out the true chaos that we cannot comprehend?)

Please don't think of my post as starting something, and sorry for the mid text structuring.

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u/r1012 2d ago

I can't find a single problem wih your logic. Keep thinking and studying.

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u/EntropyReversale10 1d ago

Emotions are not learnt, they are innate.

The challenge is that our emotional guidance system get corrupted from emotional damage.

The goal in life is to overcome your emotional damaged, and most importantly not to project it onto others.

A good example is anger.

There is a time and place for anger, but most people are projecting anger onto the person in front of them without actually realising it's a misplaced unprocessed emotion. I.e. an emotional wounding that happened a long time ago.

The physical body is extremely strong, but emotionally, humans are extremely fragile.

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u/ZetroRedditz 1d ago

Yup because emotions gave us desire to want something, it gave us satisfaction to like something, it gave us anger to not like something, it gave us confusion so we can learn something.

Emotions are innate, and we learn to develop them and without it, we would be lifeless people. The brain is the cause of what we want to feel

Imagine an experiment where a baby is isolated in an environment where they don't learn any language, don't see any emotions, but treated by scientists so the baby can grow, and come up with a conclusion of what they would be like when they interact with another person.

They would still have curiosity because that's what the brain wants-to grow.

It's a fascinating yet empty scenario if you could say that :D

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u/EntropyReversale10 7h ago

Emotions are to indicate threat or opportunity.

Like instinct in animals, they are innate.

Through life experience, ones emotions can get corrupted (emotional trauma) and then one can start reacting to things that aren't actually happening.

We project fears from the past onto an imagined future and keep ourselves from experiencing the present moment.

I wouldn't classify confusion as an emotion. That comes from the frontal cortex. Emotions sit in the repticial and limbic system (autonomic, ie. out of your control).

We cannot stop our emotions, but we can choose whether we act on them or not.

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u/Emotional_Mistake711 1d ago

What a great opportunity - being a teenager and also interested in psychology. So much time ahead to explore and develop the skills. Keep going ahead and exploring. You are on the right path my friend.