What are some clear differences between feelers and thinkers that makes them easy to tell apart?

Hm, I suppose that is one way to put it from a feeling-perspective anyway, in that one detaches in a sense, from one's personal feelings about something. I'm an INTJ so I tend to understand things logically first, how things make sense to me. I do use my feeling function a lot, but when it comes down to it, I am much more skilled and adept at making sense of the world through impersonal logic. The way I deal with the world through Te is that I am focused on logical results and outcomes, productivity and efficiency. So when I make decisions, I tend to look at what the outcome will be, how effective it is.

As an example, if I'm put in a managerial position and I have to organize a group of people to perform a task together, I would focus on how to best achieve that outcome.

As another example, my girlfriend is an ESFP and we sometimes debate various subjects such as human rights. Last time we argued we were arguing over female circumcision and I was arguing for the importance of providing new factual perspectives of how to see and understand the in order to create more awareness and thus increase understanding of say, minority groups and people In this case, I was arguing for that I think it is also important to bring up that female circumcision isn't just all bad, but it depends a lot on the individual and the woman in question and that women may choose to have it because they, according to the culture in which they live, understanding it as empowering compared to the Western narrative of the situation that paints it as bad, period. She was arguing from an ethical Fi perspective where she felt that what is the most important is to first of all consider the harm of the individual and it should be outlawed because of how much harm it causes girls and women who may be circumcised not as a choice, but under coercion.

Another great example of ethical reasoning, especially Fi, is the song "Stan" by Eminem. Notice how he is so able to shift back and forth between various perspectives in order to consider the rights of the individual. That's a great example of sophisticated use of the feeling function and something I, as an INTJ, cannot do, anyway. I try though, lol.

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