Wow! Look at that! Give a man something concrete to discuss and all of a sudden the sentences flow like water from a mountain spring! So: 1) You love playing the piano. 2) Women love you loving playing the piano. 3) Complications ensued Here's what followed: - "I was turned into an object" - "I was marshaled like a dog" - "Into shutting my soul up" - "I had my freedoms taken away from me" Your words, not mine. Do those strike you as phrases describing the dehumanizing effect of rescinded control? thing is, I read the second, third and fourth paragraphs and we're talking about something real. I get to Are we conflating antipsychotics with internet avatars? Because I fail to find the parallel.So, would it be dehumanizing for me to remove the externalities which are controlling my own mind, specifically the ones that are controlling the way I perceive things. In this case, like someone's avatar, or what they are "interested" in?