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Overcoming addiction to moralism

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Matt Malcom
May 31, 2026
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Philosophers,

The searching for certainty took longer to stop than I would like to admit. Years longer. I want to tell you how it actually unfolded — not as theory, but as a sequence of months in my actual life.

When I first left the world of high-control religion, a piece of me was still running on the old operating system. The framework had collapsed,…

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