i think about being killed in a really violent, painful way sometimes. it's not self-loathing for me as much as, like, validation...?? extreme sensory input that "matches" the intensity of the internal happenings of my brain. my nerves screaming out at me, sending signals up through my spine that are meant to make me aware of danger proportional to the physical harm being done to me.
it hurts when you put your hand on a hot stove because an animal wouldn't move their hand away otherwise, and having their hand burnt away sort of impedes survival. evolution!
so it's like completing the "other half"... filling the hole? forming a whole, complete being? too much pain in my brain. why no pain from the nerves sprawling throughout my body?
not to diminish the self-loathing component of that if u do experience it, though!! i've done bad things to others but i think my own circumstances have limited the amount of serious harm i've been able to carry out. i think it's just a form of privilege. like, none of us have control over the circumstances of our births. people are born, and then their neurology and external circumstances determine what actions they take throughout their life.
maybe that's too pessimistically deterministic in phrasing, but it's basically the scientific method is what i mean. it's not nurture or nature, it's nurture that "activates" nature. people with a dsm-5 cluster b personality disorder almost always have accompanying trauma, but not everyone who experiences that trauma has the same genetics to facilitate the development of that disorder.
so, it's like, i don't think anyone can have good-or-evil ideas about morality applied to their very existence, it's just circumstances playing out.
but, obviously, that doesn't take away from the pain of actually contending with circumstances like that on an emotional level..!! so i thought it might be a similar experience--wanting to make the empty parts match the full parts