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i think part of what makes bojack horseman really good is that like, bojack horseman is a groomer. he gets vulnerable and/or young women to rely on him and takes advantage of them when they do. but i think an important part of it is that bojack doesn't *feel* like a groomer for most of the series, i struggled to put into perspective how his treatment of sarah lynn was intentional. But that's the point, he didn't do it on purpose. and as an audience we can see how he didn't do it on purpose, we can read every explanation he gives and understand that he's being honest. it's just, he took advantage of it. when charlotte wanted it, he took advantage of it.

i wish that the "bad people don't worry about whether they're bad people" myth was less pervasive in posts about moral OCD. you can tell it's false if you look at the world for more than a half-second, and i think the degree to which it is obviously false makes more people conclude that their OCD is correct. there are lots of self-hating terrible people out there. the crucial part is that their self-hatred is not making them into better people

This in Bojack. Bojack constantly worries about whether or not he is a good person. This is shown by him telling Diane to tell him that he’s good deep down and in “Stupid Piece of Shit” when he’s shown to criticize himself when he makes decisions that hurt Hollyhock. However, he does nothing meaningfully to change the course of his behavior. So, believing that you are a bad person, even if the reasons you believe you are a bad person are misguided, does not necessarily mean that you cannot do things that hurt others consistently.