Internalized authority conflict harms strong personalities most, external conflict harms weak ones.

Evidence

As long as a conflict is purely external, it is worst if the personality is weak; but, if it becomes internalized, it is most destructive if the personality is strong. — Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Georg Simmel, 5913

Categorization

• XREF: Raskolnikov’s powerful personality is exactly what makes his internalized moral-legal conflict so destructive rather than a crushing external force.