{"id":270960,"date":"2020-09-03T11:06:22","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T15:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=270960"},"modified":"2020-09-03T11:07:11","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T15:07:11","slug":"the-ethics-of-self-esteem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/03\/the-ethics-of-self-esteem\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ethics of Self Esteem"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An unsavory thought:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Perhaps those individuals with very high self esteem should <em>NOT<\/em> associate themselves with <a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/03\/is-it-the-duty-of-those-with-high-self-esteem-to-help-those-with-low-self-esteem\/\">individuals with low self esteem<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why? Individuals with low self esteem tend to be &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/02\/energy-vampires\/\">energy vampires<\/a>&#8216; and steal energy from those with high self confidence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nietzsche-vibes on a more <a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/20\/elite-asceticism\/\">elitist society<\/a> (his notion of &#8216;pathos of distance&#8217; &#8212; that ironically the strong should be shielded from the weak).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An unsavory thought: Perhaps those individuals with very high self esteem should NOT associate themselves with individuals with low self esteem. Why? Individuals with low self esteem tend to be &#8216;energy vampires&#8216; and steal \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":270955,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_ek_photo_artist_note":"","_ek_photo_thesis":"","_ek_photo_camera":"","_ek_photo_place":"","_ek_photo_human_moment":"","_ek_photo_sequence":"","_ek_photo_question":"","_ek_photo_canonical_claim":"","_ek_photo_ai_summary":"","_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/EK065905-scaled.jpg?fit=1707%2C2560&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270960"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":270966,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270960\/revisions\/270966"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}