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Isn't that basically the same as the bottom?

Perspective. Yes and no. The concept of not dating a person because of association to you is the same- however, in the hierarchy of self loathing, feeling so bad about yourself that you are essentially sorry to trouble someone with your existence doesn’t require the same level of self hate that you would actually think less of a person just for being able to see a good quality in you. The first implies that you can’t see good in you, the latter implies that not only can you not see good in you, but you believe yourself so bad that no one else could possibly see good in you unless they were mentally deranged. More over- the first suggests some concept of love- and where there is a concept of love for others, there can be a concept to love ones self. The latter shows no concern for others or ones self, it exists in a void where one sees themselves not as a stain but as an aboration. Thus I consider the latter to be the less redeemable and ultimately more self deprecating expression.

The latter example shows also a general disgust towards humanity, which is itself a form of self hatred as one is, most likely human. Thus you are not just hating yourself at a higher level, but also hating the very basis of what you are, as opposed to the former which shows a distinct concern for humanity, and to a degree a mindset that one is a lower class of human, but not an inherent hate or remorse but a casual acceptance that one is lesser.