Doesn't that kinda make Scar correct in his dismissal of Mufasa and Simba and make him the good guy? And yes I'm aware some societies had adoptable heirs, like the Roman emperors.
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No problem, no offense taken.
And yeah, I think we're actually on the same page. There's no way to purge that. I definitely think there's many political philosophies that claim that, but all of them are false. You can't get away from magical thinking, you're going to do it, but you have to be vigilant enough to recognize it when it happens, correct for it when it does, and hopefully keep yourself from doing it too often.
That's really what I mean when I say "taking the mantel of responsibility onto yourself" as part of the Deconversion process. You can never off-load that responsibility ever again. You must permanently hold that responsibility for your mind going forward, otherwise it's merely an abdication of responsibility. You can't pass it to someone else and just trust an institution or authority to handle that responsibility for you.
It's a bit of a curse. You "bit the apple", as it were. You can never go back, and you're also never finished.
Yes then, we are in agreement here.