What definitions of "self" and "sense of self" are we using? We will have to draw that line before I can begin to erase it.
That's a lot of new qualifiers; in other words, a "No True Scotsman" fallacy.
It sounds like you're talking about the equivalent of a "Python language development mailing list", whereas I'm saying "it's all just assembly anyway". Technically, such a higher-level discussion as found in the former can be useful, but I don't expect anyone on there to claim that there's some essential "Python nature" separate from the ones and zeroes (and the electrical configurations of the developer brains, other physical components, etc.).
Someone can talk about what Python "should" do all day long, and try to determine the "nature of Python", but I really only care about the programmers when it comes to writing or debugging my actual code, especially when the code behind the mailing list breaks.
So you don't care what python should or should not do, but you think that python should not break your mailing list?