Tim: "GOD DAMMIT EMILY." Me: "What...?" Tim: "I screwed up." Nikki: "Don't blame Emily for things when you screw up." Tim: "But...isn't that what everyone else does?" Me: *makes a face* Tim: *snerk* Emily makes the best sad faces.
Maybe the entire point of civilization was to distance ourselves from emotion, and thereby other people. You don't feel alone when you can't feel, after all.