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Re:Things You Notice When You Quit the News by ashark on Monday December 12, 2016 @10:33AM (#13158716)
If mood-setting music is unacceptable emotional manipulation, we'd better all stop interacting with one another to avoid the great crimes we're all (apparently) constantly committing, because that's about as benign as it gets.
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Re:Things You Notice When You Quit the News by ZenoArrow on Monday December 12, 2016 @01:19PM (#13160344)
Not really.

There's nothing wrong with sharing music with others, what matters is the intent. Sharing music to enjoy together, great. Sharing music you may not enjoy just to get your rocks off, not exactly the best thing in the world.

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Re:Things You Notice When You Quit the News by ashark on Monday December 12, 2016 @02:08PM (#13160829)
I don't know what social interaction generally, and especially relations between the sexes, would look like absent anything that's at least as "manipulative" as mood music, of all things. It'd be some extreme sci-fi material, probably considered highly dystopic by most exposed to it.
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Re:Things You Notice When You Quit the News by ZenoArrow on Monday December 12, 2016 @05:48PM (#13162767)
You don't get it. There's nothing wrong with mood music. It's about the reason you put it on.
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