re: #432 Obdicut

You really seem like you’re responding to the writer as if he is a manipulative sociopath. Is that your belief?

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I really don’t get what psychic process you are using to determine that he’s giving self-serving, manipulative advice rather than sincere and well-meant advice, however criticizeable it may be

Hope this works, format-wise! No, I do not think the writer of this is a sociopath, or anything like that. I would like to repeat that I do not think manipulative and sincere are necessarily mutually exclusive; maybe in one action, so to speak, but he says a lot of things, and as I said, I think there is sincere admission, mixed together with rather dangerous insinuations.
As to his motivations, that’s not my point, and I think you’ll find that I talked about a dangerous message, and about how that message is ultimately enabling to abusers, and disempowering to those abused.
Motivations are a difficult things I find, and I try to avoid talking about them. Maybe you think that calling an utterance manipulative already makes too much of a statement there?
Ok, let me get to the rest of what you wrote!