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What a depressing way of thinking.

Were this any other situation, he'd think this was just outright mockery. But this man has already admitted he has no friends, that he's protective of himself. It feels like watching a serpent snap out its jaws in warning, over and over, for fear it will be touched.

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I do it because it's what I would want done to me.

I'm not going out of my way to think of people as some kind of selfish monsters. They're more complicated than that.

You're no different.