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Scrupulosity has the following characteristic features: (1) perfectionism, (2) chronic doubt, and (3) moral thought-action fusion...
In likelihood thought-action fusion, sufferers believe that their thoughts, merely by occurring, make some bad outcome (such as the act or event that they are imagining) more likely to occur...
In moral thought-action fusion, by contrast, people with Scrupulosity fail to distinguish doing something immoral from thinking about doing something immoral, and hence,
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― Clean Hands: Philosophical Lessons from Scrupulosity
― Clean Hands: Philosophical Lessons from Scrupulosity
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It didn't even feel like my decision to make. It came to me the way that all the compulsions do: a command written in the marrow of my bones. If you drop something, it'll fall. One plus one is two. You have to write on your stomach or your organs will get taken. Go home and shower right now or you'll get ink poisoning. Wash your hands until they hurt, you deserve it. If you killed a child last night, you'll have to kill yourself.
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― Unthinkable Things
― Unthinkable Things
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