The morally good true self: potential ethical downsides
People that believe that they have a morally good true self care about morality as core to their identity. If they then behave immorally, it threatens the sense of their identity.
People might respond to the threat by denying that they're acting immorally or get defensive. Others might do a good deed to reestablish their goodness.
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