- "Your mood disorder is not terribly uncommon, lots of people have similar experiences, and you are not alone." / "Your concern about your brain's behavior is legitimate, mental illness is thing, and your experience might be improved by therapy and/or medication."
- "You are a good person and there is no reason why you should not get to have a relationship/sex." / "Nobody owes you a relationship/sex, particularly not the specific person who is not interested in you and upon whom you are currently fixated."
- Similarly: "Feelings are legitimate things that happen, and you should pay attention to them and let them exist." / "Nobody (including you) is required to do anything or permit anything to be done simply because you have a feeling."
- "It's fine to like yourself the way you are." / "It's a good idea to strive to improve yourself."
- "People have a right to make a living doing whatever it is that they do, provided that what they do is good and valuable to the people who are paying them to do it, and not directly harmful to other people." / "Seriously, life coaching is thing that people get paid for? Whatever happened to getting advice and support from your friends?"
- "Freedom of speech is important!" / "People who didn't read the article shouldn't get to comment!"
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