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Communities that extract rather than generate meaning can be
Communities that extract rather than generate meaning can be diagnosed by whether they amplify your individual purpose (healthy) or require abandoning it (unhealthy).
Why This Is a Principle
Derives from Autonomy is the felt sense of being the author of your own (autonomy as felt authorship) and Satisfying the psychological needs of autonomy, competence, (autonomy/competence/relatedness drive intrinsic motivation). The principle provides diagnostic criteria for toxic vs healthy community structures. When communities require suppressing individual purpose, they violate the autonomy need.