helgaleena
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I actually find this more disturbing than anything else. I understand the impulse, but think hard about what you're saying and the relationship between you and the people you 'collect...' Are they not individuals as well, with separate lives and separate emotions (there's that empathy vs. sympathy thing again) and separate agendas? Aren't they more than simply buffers to protect you from bad people? When you start treating people as objects for your own gain, however good or positive you perceive that gain is... Then you really need to evaluate the way you process your relationships.
I never used the term 'collect'; I was merely trying to address the OP's complaint that such a large number of the people in his environment seemed to be 'psycho-socipathic' according to his little list. Being more forgivng and empathetic oneself is a sure way to help foster similar treatment by others. I stand by that assertion, no matter what brings those people or causes them to drift away again. That includes empathy and compassion toward those we are trying to identify with this label.