Which you, is you :D

Which you is you?

  • Your mind

  • Your body


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Your thoughts are just as much you as your actions. The kind of thoughts you're talking about tend to be basic reactions to stimuli, real instinctual level shit: "this guy is annoying so I want to hurt him" or "aw man look at those titties, stare at the titties, touch 'em, do it do it do it" and so on. These thoughts very often are at odds with social conventions because as a species we've generally agreed that we can do better than listening to the little voice all the time so we have concepts like being polite or civilized, which are just alternative terms for not following your basic reactionary instincts. Your actions are not separate from these thoughts, they are what you do after assessing and then accepting or dismissing the suggestions of those thoughts. Both parts are equally you, some people simply care less or have less self control and so tend to just roll with what the "primitive" parts of their mind suggests. There is no meaningful separation that should lead someone to say they're really one side or the other, but you could make a reasonable estimate of how frequently you give in to these thoughts and how hard you find it to resist them, and that would be something you could use to draw some worthwhile conclusions. Denying your thoughts as being part of your identity is just nonsense.
 
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