Punishment

Personalities want to control, judge, and make sure that you have as many "pleasant" experiences as possible. Your personality also believes that whenever someone does not follow his standards and values, he should be punished. The ultimate goal of punishment would be that the other person will no longer show that kind of behaviour, thus assuring your personality that this kind of disturbance will not happen again in the future. It is not too weird that your personality believes this to be a truth, as he knows from experience that personalities will try to avoid unpleasantness as much as possible, so a thought system like that sounds logical. The "soft" approach of explaining is not really his cup of tea, as that does not come with guaranteed outcomes like the one mentioned first. And where would the end be when everybody could do what he liked! Only bring to mind the increasing amount of lawsuits, firmly addressing responsibilities, jail, death penalties: they are all justification for personalities. In everyday life we punish in much more subtle ways: through looks, intonation, silence, ignoring, closing your mind, looking for support with others, resistance etc.

And, did this make the world a safer place to live in? More fun? Are the standards well respected now? Has the need for punishment diminished? I don't think so. Either people are impressed by the penalty and will stop doing it (although they are likely to feel resistance anyway), or they are not impressed and will repeat the pattern again and again. Simply take a look at the amount of traffic fines. On a collective level we keep on repeating a pattern that is not successful, but that we are somehow accustomed to and call logical in the eyes of our personalities.

You might want to discuss the real basics of all this: our personalities themselves. Now what does a mistake really look like in the vision of your inner Self? This aspect of yours does not see any mistakes, as it does not judge, simple as that. Wouldn't it become a total mess when we all would listen to our inner Selves only? I don't think so, and what are the chances that it gets worse than this? So why not give it a try? When you live by the inspiration of your inner Self, you will no longer feel the need to correct other people, judge, interpret, punish etcetera. The same way you can strengthen each others personality (and punishment is a form of strengthening), applies to your inner Selves also. So keep in mind that simply your focus on your inner Self, makes it easier for the other person involved to remember that aspect in himself. And let yourselves be surprised about what happens then.