As I have already said, the Conservation Instinct forces the person to pay attention to himself and his own well-being. Yet, in type Nine, its natural "reason" is corrupted by Sloth's the most dissipative and dispersive passion. The final result of this encounter/confrontation is that, although more aware of themselves than other Nines, these people cannot pay too much attention to their own perceptions.
Unlike the Sexual variant, instinct here requires that the Nines ...
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