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Old Jul 26, 2023, 05:19 PM
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If someone is labeling you, I would call that into question. Seriously. Psychological labels are definitely open to question.

I personally dislike labels although I am often forced to use them.

They take a rich, deep, multidimensional reality and try to reduce it to a map.

Maps are okay but it is so easy to forget that the map is not the reality it portrays. It is an simplification, often a gross oversimplification of what is deep and complex. It impoverishes reality.

Consider the dictionary definitions of oversimplification: 1] simplification of something to such an extent that a distorted impression is given. 2] a description or explanation of something that is too simple and ignores some of the facts. 3] the action or product of describing or explaining something in such a simple way that it is no longer correct or true 4] the act of making something seem simpler than it really is . 6] a simplification that goes too far and to the point of misrepresentation.

Insurance companies like labels but the "summing up" of a human being made up of millions of things and events is an impoverishment of reality. Untrue and unfair and kind of an insult to reality itself.

Yes, sometimes we need a map but we should never mistake the map for the terrain. I think this goes back to the debate about whether a concept is a window through which one can look at reality or whether it is a box that one can stuff reality into.

Anyway, that is my own fallible opinion for whatever it is worth.
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