Person, choice, value I was spending time once with a friend who’d just come out of a relationship with a woman who self-harmed manipulatively and abusively. He mentioned he’d talked to his psychologist about this relationship, and that, among other things, his psychologist had talked about the importance of sep
https://rogersbacon.substack.com/p/nomen-est-omen?s=w discussed writerly bias here
On the topic of seeing good in people even as they do bad things: a model separating morals from (self) manipulation: https://everythingstudies.com/2019/08/19/the-prince-and-the-figurehead/