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Do not abuse this power. The Manual can give you a god-like emotional power over others without their awareness. But before you get all excited, plotting global domination like you're the next Hitler: not so fast. This god-like power also comes with a god-like responsibility: to do the right thing and to not abuse this power for personal gain or perverse pleasure.

Why?

For starters, don't be evil. Just don't.

Not sold yet?

Here's three selfish reasons to be good:

1 The stupidest thing you could ever do is to make someone feel like you've cheated them. "Feeling cheated" hits deep-rooted emotions. it provokes violent, blinding rage and revenge. Think Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction. Or the lunatic who imprisons another man in a room for 15 years in Old Boy. Seriously, you are basically digging your own grave. And the funny thing is that this person could have willingly offered you real value that could have improved your life, but now they're just a liability. Only a dumb-ass donkey would not get that. You're not a dumb-ass donkey, are you?

2 Never forget that people will cut off their own arm if they discover it to be diseased. Yes, people will lie, steal and cheat, and part of their brain will even light up at the thought of this naughtiness. And yes, people will continue to confuse "what is good" with "what is bad". But when you clear the fog of those baser impulses and confusion, the human animal is innately drawn to what is ultimately real, good and beautiful. After all, isn't that what you want in the end?

3 If you abuse this power then you will miss out on better relationships with better people. Because people can only ever become more secure and better for you when you become more secure and better for them. If your plan is to poison others to get what you want, then you might win zero-sum games of one-upmanship but you'll also end up surrounded by poisoned people. What's the point? You may as well just poison yourself.

And if you still want to abuse this power, then I'm not worried anyway.

There's this little-known secret among intellectual elites that there are safety-switches deeply embedded in the human animal which keep people with bad intentions in a lower cognitive range. To paraphrase Bertrand Russell, you actually need empathy and compassion in order to reach higher levels of cognition. There are parts of your brain you simply won't be able to access if you're stuck in a lower cognitive range. So I would hope you're not that dumb for both our sake's.