@slant I find your perspective interesting. To my ears, it sounds like a person's level of esteem, and their disposition, is a somewhat "permanent" quality of who the person is, rather than a matter of a particular attitude based on an overall time and place or a matter of that person's history (which may or may not be their fault or even who they always were or are). If I'm understanding correctly?
I find it interesting because I wonder if that is (
bringing back to MBTI) a common pattern of conscious Fi - like the way a subject feels and makes you feel particularly is what they kinda just "are". Whereas, I find that kind of difficult to grasp in my "feeling" attitudes. If a person has low self esteem or high self-esteem, it doesn't consciously "disgust" or "impress" me. I'm more interested and curious in finding out "Why do they have low-esteem?", "Why does it seem they cannot change?", It leaves me open to being quite surprised more often than not...
But I dunno, I
feel like an oddball INFJ who just wants to understand it, figure it out, hopefully one day get it right(both for self and others) - and honestly deep down, I pretty much passionately hate everyone and love everyone regardless of their
perceived self-esteem.