[Beat the peace and quiet into you. Perhaps, in a crass definition of the act, it makes sense. But it too badly disparages what Cy truly does for him.]
Then it isn't a mutual act, what you're doing with that person. You've turned it into harm they're inflicting against you and given them no choice but to become that violence. I can't imagine someone who is good would be content with that situation. Aren't you only considering it from your own point of view?
You're making them hurt you. It's selfish.
[He considers the earliest examples of pain between himself and Cy — how he had been ready to take more than Cy was willing to give. That their stops and starts, their cultivated practice and careful rules, were as much a protection for himself as for Cy's mental well-being.]
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[Beat the peace and quiet into you. Perhaps, in a crass definition of the act, it makes sense. But it too badly disparages what Cy truly does for him.]
Then it isn't a mutual act, what you're doing with that person. You've turned it into harm they're inflicting against you and given them no choice but to become that violence. I can't imagine someone who is good would be content with that situation. Aren't you only considering it from your own point of view?
You're making them hurt you. It's selfish.
[He considers the earliest examples of pain between himself and Cy — how he had been ready to take more than Cy was willing to give. That their stops and starts, their cultivated practice and careful rules, were as much a protection for himself as for Cy's mental well-being.]
Do you think that it's wrong? To be humiliated?