That is a perfectly reasonably response to this sort of... experience.
[ It was, he vaguely remembered from some blurb he'd read somewhere, a good idea to reassure a person that they were right to feel the way they did about things no matter the degree or the cause. Denying someone their right to show emotions and saying they should just get over it, they should hold it in, was a bad response.
Crying is the way people ask for help, saying they're hurting and they want to stop hurting. Basic biological responses. I am sad or angry.
How does weeping work with an inorganic life form? ]
... I'm sorry. [ Why doesn't high school offer classes on how to deal with crying girls, or crying at all, really. He swallowed, stiffly and sympathetically; ] I want that, too, but the administration appears to be either too cruel or too mad to care. I don't want people to suffer either, but... We have no power to force them to stop.
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[ It was, he vaguely remembered from some blurb he'd read somewhere, a good idea to reassure a person that they were right to feel the way they did about things no matter the degree or the cause. Denying someone their right to show emotions and saying they should just get over it, they should hold it in, was a bad response.
Crying is the way people ask for help, saying they're hurting and they want to stop hurting. Basic biological responses. I am sad or angry.
How does weeping work with an inorganic life form? ]
... I'm sorry. [ Why doesn't high school offer classes on how to deal with crying girls, or crying at all, really. He swallowed, stiffly and sympathetically; ] I want that, too, but the administration appears to be either too cruel or too mad to care. I don't want people to suffer either, but... We have no power to force them to stop.