Originally Posted by
fjoerd
I mean, just imagine, how easily these two types can grow sincere hatred against each other. They read each other perfectly, they're perfectly aware of what the other party is all about, but deep down they don't value each other's capabilities all that much, and, if things go south, they will use their Ego functions in a selfish manner and will turn their demonstractive functions against each other's Ego to invalidate one another.
Consider a hypothetical example:
SEI organizes a small pleasant familial gathering and invites a few people. Everything goes fine until the ESI guest realizes, she hates one of the male guests in the group because she perceives him as evil or immoral (Fi base). She bluntly expresses her opinion out of the blue, to the complete shock of everybody else, and starts to pressure the SEI host to stick up, acknowledge how evil the evil person is and send him home (Se creative). SEI tries to smooth out the situation by saying, Oh noes, he's not that bad, he didn't really mean it, why don't we just calm down a little, try to get along and not ruin this thing, I put my heart into this. (Tries to use Fe creative to mediate and to encourage sympathy in one another to save the situation, even though the SEI knows, things have started to fall apart already - Ni-role, while probably the quickest and most efficient way of handling the situation would be to use Te to simply put the misbehaving guest into place, but that's SEI's PoLR, so it's a no-go). ESI just cannot be tamed and says, I don't care about this stupid event anymore, there's nothing special about it, and if you don't do what I demand, then you're on his side and you're just like him (shows poor and one-dimensional negative Te reasoning and expresses how she doesn't value SEI's main strengths, but also because of her Ne PoLR, she doesn't realize, she's about to lose her friend if she keeps going). SEI loses his temper, and says, Oh, because you're so perfect, right? (Se pushback), and proceeds with his 4D Fi demonstrative on the spot, which is just as good as ESI's base, but used in a negative way, to give a reality-check to ESI, and to show her, she's no better than anyone else. At this point, ESI runs away crying, the other guests leave and continue in the next-door bar instead while SEI breaks down and mourns all of his efforts that went to waste.
So, you're right, these two types are just nothing alike though are able to size up each other very well.
p.s. Sorry for spamming you, and from OP for derailing, I just got a little excited from over-thinking, lol.