I thought of the mind as a court.
I'm going to brainstorm about it:
- People don't judge themselves enough.
- They'll judge some of their ideas but not others.
- They'll judge some of their ideas by their strictest standards, but won't judge some other ideas by those same standards.
- And they won't have any good reasoning (or any reasoning at all) for why some ideas should be judged and others not.
- A person's mind should be thought of as a court.
- There's a judge. A jury. Lawyers. Witnesses. Bystanders.
- They are all you -- different parts of you.
- These parts of your are approximately autonomous.[1]
- People routinely act in ways where some part of them refuses to go to court.
- And the other people (the other parts of the person) refuse to call them out on it.
- Those parts of you that are refusing to go to court are doing things like rioting and destroying property. (This is a metaphor for mental suffering.)
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