Stress/relaxation determines how insecure/secure you feel and how big a scarcity/surplus you see in resources
That sets a ceiling on how much empathy you are capable of feeling and expressing. Which partly determines how much aggression/harmony you provoke. Which drives stress.
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I’ve known about this vicious cycle for a long time but so far have found no way to crack it open. The best you can do is direct 100W healing rays at stressed-mean people until they feel more secure, but that’s as likely to switch them into contemptuous-mean as nice.
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Plus 100W healing rays drain your own battery very quickly. At the rate of 1 spoon/minute. And then you have to retreat or you become mean yourself.
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reducing stress is the direct way to tackle but only one. Stress usually results from some upstream system. You can also try to disrupt the upstream system that causes stress rather than relying on 100W healing rays (yes, you tap out of that fast)
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