Emotional manipulation.
I stay on constant vigilance against it.
If I feel an emotional pull beginning within me, I ask if I want this feeling. If I do not, I cut it off.
It takes practice, but there is PLENTY of practice to be found.
I’m very empathic by nature but I have a limited supply. I apologize to wasps just before/after I kill them with poison. They deserve my empathy. A picture on the Internet does not.