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Personality nomenclature

womfalcs3

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What do you call it when you automatically detest a confident (borderline arrogant) person, and you're attracted/feel conciliatory towards any person who expresses vulnerabilities?
 
Normally we don't attribute names to pairings of emotion and cause. If you detested spinach and were sympathetic to trees you might be called a spinach hater and tree hugger, but more complicated pairings would lead to long enough descriptors that you might as well just say it in full.

To generalize though, there's the concept of rooting for the underdog that could be one path of exploration. Another could be the evolutionary and social urge to protect the weak.

I could be wrong, there might be a better word. Would have to spend more time thinking about it.
 
This thread really exposed the wanna arrogant beta males.
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The philosophical position is called humanism.

Herr Mann's classic tome Die Zauberberg (The Magic Mountain) is a brilliant book which offers various considerations of it.

On the one hand, you have Leo Naptha, a Jewish jesuit who prioritizes dogmatic viewpoints, and is a parody of the post-structuralists who took sentiment out of the equation to invoke belief in how things should be. On the other hand, you have Settembrini who represents the spirit of enlightenment — the belief in human decision-making as a cure for the ills of society — then in crisis during the early 20th Century on the onset of the Great War.

In the middle is your everyman, Hans Castorp, who the reader is supposed to sympathise with as he goes through a learned process, including falling for aristocratic Madame Chauchet, who represents the great duality of love and pain. If you've seen the Ghibli movie, The Wind Rises then you know his type as the main character was based on him — a classic tragic figure who just wants to build airplanes but finds his vocation directly involved with Japan's war machine.

But really is good not to detest those strong, arrogant characters. Take their ideas for yourself and use them knowing when they'll work, and when they won't. Deep down inside they're fearful children whose ego has formed as a barrier to the harshness of their environment.
 
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What do you call it when you automatically detest a confident (borderline arrogant) person, and you're attracted/feel conciliatory towards any person who expresses vulnerabilities?

I believe it's called the Ultra Loser Omega Cuck.
 
What do you call it when you automatically detest a confident (borderline arrogant) person, and you're attracted/feel conciliatory towards any person who expresses vulnerabilities?
This was famously described by Sigmund Freud as a "Soylent Boylent".

Hope that helps. Cheers.
 
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