Manipulating others or myself through feelings that are easily touched because they are easily discarded, safe (conventional, cliché-driven) and/or cheap (cost me nothing personally).
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Come on, now; tell yourself the truth. Are some of your noble sentiments really more like masturbation? I mean no judgment: pleasuring yourself is fine, but if you’re the only one deriving pleasure from a feeling, just be honest about it, and stop pretending you’re touching — or being touched by — the world.

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