SEE+ILI

Values of the SEE and ILI dyad (irrationals, central, descending, democrats, stubborn, prudent, process)

Jointly accepted statements:

1. In this life, everyone must think and care primarily about themselves, without fear of infringing on others—after all, the world is founded on competition for a reason.
2. Overall, I rather respect those who can steal without getting caught.
3. I’m better than others at sensing and quickly grasping subtle nuances when comparing deals based on profitability.
4. If the situation turns out such that “you can’t beat brute force,” I know how to appease those currently in power and can, for that purpose, step over my former views and be insincere (since I believe that stubbornness in such a case is not a virtue but stupidity).
5. Even when I do something wrong, embarrassment, shame, or guilt are clearly not my feelings.
6. Individuality is above all else; I’m alien to hierarchy, herd instinct, and group mentality.
7. I can convincingly lie to a client if instructed by my boss.
8. I’m not much affected by others’ moods and often remain calm even when everyone around me is worried.
9. I’m quicker than others to notice subtle nuances in development trends.
10. I feel a pleasant relief when I finally manage to do something at someone else’s expense.
11. As a politician, I would push for the repeal of all sorts of unnecessary prohibitions and restrictions.
12. I willingly and quickly find all the "weak spots" in the character and life of any person I interact with, even briefly.
13. In most situations, I am quite resourceful when trouble looms.
14. I usually don’t care about any irregularities if it hasn’t been proven they’ll negatively impact the result I want.
15. I easily identify the most likely and important version of future events.

Jointly rejected statements:

1. I can easily imagine sacrificing myself for some holy idea.
2. My attitude toward others has almost always been trusting.
3. It’s unpleasant for me to see someone grimace in pain—I immediately begin to feel something similar to their suffering.
4. I get scared myself, even to the point of startled shudders, when watching events in a well-made horror film.
5. I really love children.
6. I easily absorb other people’s moods and tend to get stuck in their emotional states.
7. When making decisions, I always instinctively consider whether they will harm humanity, society, or other people.
8. Compared to my acquaintances, I am more of an altruist by nature, almost always ready to share, trying to help, and respecting others' interests.
9. I would feel sick bathing in luxury at others’ expense, having created nothing myself.
10. Military valor is one of the greatest human virtues.
11. Among other nations, I most respect those who know how to act in unison, as a single whole.
12. I would never get a tattoo—any interference with my body from outside is deeply painful to me.
13. I easily respond to requests to do things around the house.
14. My weakness, compared to others, is that I, unlike most, cannot lie for personal gain.
15. I more than others advocate collectivism and the principle “one for all, all for one.”
16. I always feel like part of a larger human whole—a nation, a state, a team.
17. One must love their homeland, their native land. All “rootless” people who don’t feel this and live like tumbleweeds are flawed.
18. As a politician, I would emphasize support for traditional values.
19. I believe that the interests of an individual are nothing compared to those of the family or tribe.
20. I believe that the importance and value of individual human interests are often exaggerated—because a person is always just a part of a larger whole made up of many people.
21. I often immerse myself in past emotional experiences.
22. My misfortune is that I absolutely cannot “bend the truth.”
23. Public interests have always concerned me more than personal ones.
24. My life is dedicated to the common collective good.
25. The people, with its collective self-awareness, are above any individual.

Semantic core of the values of the SEE and ILI dyad is individualism with a distinctly egoistic flavor, where emotional detachment from others plays a decisive role, and the entire world’s existence is reduced in the mind to one’s own personal experience. Given the low social productivity of irrationals, this produces a worldview where individuals do not jointly produce the common good, but rather play a zero-sum game against each other. And in this game, your personal goal is to outsmart others, maneuver in such a way that - no matter how - you take from others and don’t let them take from you.

As a result, the most typical traits for this dyad are indifference to others’ experiences (even those caused by their own actions) and a negative-disdainful attitude toward any form of self-sacrifice—which in this context is seen as self-destructive stupidity. While previously examined dyads of socionic “carefrees” essentially represented four different attitudes toward the value of one’s own personal past and future, the “prudent” dyads differ in how they relate to others’ lives - both past and future.

So what approach do SEE and ILI use, being selfish individualists?

Their attitude toward others’ future is situational and flexible; it’s taken into account only because it may, by chance, intersect again with their own, and being pragmatic, they understand their actions have consequences from which they must protect themselves. However, others’ past is entirely devalued, along with all the emotional charge it contains - which is, for many, the basis of human relationships.

Literally, SEE and ILI are types most detached from the past, inclined to ignore any background leading to the current state of affairs and to only consider the real situation at present. For instance, if someone’s ownership is not officially documented and is only maintained by unspoken agreements based on goodwill among old acquaintances, such ownership is, to SEE and ILI, a perfectly legitimate target for potential seizure and appropriation. In fact, stealing whatever is “poorly guarded” and creating conditions that ease the life of thieves is a realized form of the irrational gamma’s values.

By this we mean: (1) Creating social chaos, in whose confusion it’s easier to quietly take the product of someone else’s years of labor. (2) Fostering public atomization and mistrust among people and even toward themselves - because in such conditions it’s easier to scam the next sucker and less likely someone will stand up for them.

Among the 12 socionic functions, the spirit of SEE and ILI’s values is most tightly linked to a deficiency of Fe (extroverted ethics) and Fi (introverted ethics) - which govern a sense of connection to one's group - and an excess of Se (extroverted sensing) and Ni (introverted intuition), which are more egoistic.

Following SEE (75%) and ILI (78%), these values are also more often shared by LIE (64%) and SLE (59%). Least sympathetic to these values are peripheral ethical types: EII (40% agreement), ESE (44%), and SEI (46%).

Let’s also consider similarities and differences between the values of the irrational gamma dyad and the values of previously examined dyads. With the LSI+EIE dyad, similarities include general distrust and negativity toward people, and willingness to use political methods to advance their interests. The core difference lies in choosing between collectivism and individualism in exploiting others. LSI and EIE prefer to be elite in a group isolated from the outside world, taxing their ordinary members through legal mechanisms under the guise of fighting enemies. SEE and ILI prefer to enrich themselves individually, by creating and exploiting loopholes in legal structures - and when those loopholes are closed, they move elsewhere, across borders, into new jurisdictions where they’re still unknown.

With the ESI+LIE dyad, SEE+ILI share cosmopolitan values, where the individual is fully emancipated, detached from their social roots, and is an egoistic loner seeking the most favorable niche in the global market. The key difference is the higher work ethic and lower tendency to outright scam partners among the rational gamma types (especially ESI).

With the IEE+SLI dyad, there’s a shared postmodern worldview - where the individual lacks a logically cohesive worldview or stable ideology but can mimic whatever values and views are currently advantageous in their environment. The main difference between gamma and delta irrational types is that the former see the world as much colder and crueler, and are ready to approve of and participate in cruelty as a necessary evil.

Lastly, SEE+ILI share unique commonalities with the ILE+SEI dyad: a negative attitude toward prohibitions, restrictions, subordination, and enforced "normalcy," along with a desire to shake off any external control and, in political terms, make life freer and less bound by formalities. The difference is that the gamma dyad, in its libertarian zeal, always keeps personal gain in mind, while alpha types more often act out of naive idealism.