I've noticed that you fixate on taking issue with the wording of statements a lot, @the .
What do you mean by that?
Well other than making this thread, there was also the thread about monogamy where you go off someone's statement and seem to want to look into what they mean by that, but you go off of their literal wording of it and then attribute the concept you think fits what they're talking about...
And like just in general when you respond to posts a lot of the time, you tend to isolate certain phrases and respond to that. A lot of the time it actually seems to be really effective because it exposes potholes in peoples' logic and shows them a different perspective, but like with this thread and the monogamy thread, I feel like what you are questioning is something beside the point of the purpose of the statement. Like just because someone says "the real me" doesn't mean you have to connect that to authenticity. Just because someone says "mono means one, not zero", doesn't mean monogamy makes sex a duty.
Would you say the real me and the authentic me are two different things then? If yes how so? If no then... what?
You presented the context of: "doing something they don't want to do" = inauthentic. The answer is obviously, of course not. Someone in a concentration camp doesn't want to walk through a gas chamber and be burnt to a crisp; it has nothing to do with authenticity. Your choices often don't have much to do with authenticity, which basically means a non-fake representation of you. However, people may choose to not do things which don't sit well with them, saying, "well, I'm not going to do that, it's not me".
"The real me" is the source of authenticity but "real me" is not the same thing as "authentic" or "me being authentic". "Real me" can exist because "real" implies truth vs. non-truth; a true you or a false you makes sense. "Authentic me" cannot exist because "authentic" implies that there is an original source to be had from, and there is only one you to source from. You could say "authentically me" or "me being authentic" because then you are applying authentic to an object or action (where the original source is you).
I meant willingly do. It seems obvious that if you are forced against your will to do something, that wouldn't be considered part of the real you. I don't understand how you could come to the conclusion that the choices you make don't represent you.
Does doing something you dont want to do make you inauthentic?
I ask from the perspective of recently hearing people say things like "im not going to do that because then it wouldnt be the real me".