Emotional manipulation.
   I stay on constant vigilance against it.
   If I feel an emotional pull beginning within me, I ask if I want
   this feeling. If I do not, I cut it off.
   It takes practice, but there is PLENTY of practice to be found.

   I'm very empathic by nature but I have a limited supply. I
   apologize to wasps just before/after I kill them with poison.
   They deserve my empathy. A picture on the Internet does not.