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Yup. This is why the world had no problems before billionaires existed.

And remember to wash behind your ears

Nicknames… In writing?

Aren’t they more of a spoken word thing?

Oh I agree You do not want to know what dairy does to me! (And the people around me)

I ate a salad, am I a vegetarian?

Fair Weather Friend has gently negative connotations

The point is to be okay with the part of us that wants to.

It’s not about giving permission for bad behaviour.

If we deny that cartman lives inside us, he’ll find another way out. This is why all the worst things humanity does are in the name of doing the right thing.

Because we pretend we don’t have a cartman inside us, it’s easy to pretend the messed up things he does must be coming from our stan or Kyle.

I recommend the book “no bad parts” by Dr Richard Schwartz

It’s an accessible read that answers your question.

In short, the parts of us we hide or choose to deny (the cartman parts) still have desires and needs

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Sometimes. Sometimes it’s just “we both know you’re going to have to buy this anyway so please buy our version of it”

There’s a scale of harmful from that all the way up to scams, with “you don’t need this but we’re going to trick you into thinking you do” in the middle

Especially with Blu-ray