I've noticed that too, especially in certain forums. Is it manipulation, or bad in any way, to disagree with someone? To challenge someone? Or simply to offer advice without pressing the button? I think some people confuse disagreement as being unsupportive. But what's more unsupportive to the person than condoning behaviour and supporting thoughts that may be harmful to them?

At times it seems some people (here and offline) are... fuzzy agressives? Support or die? It is always suprising to me to see a person who present themselves as goody-good to go into attack mode the moment their world-view is challenged (and it is easy to do, without even trying to).

Maybe the goody-good behaviour may be a way of manipulating too, because it is harder to resist to goodie-good (and seemigly fragile) person than to somebody who is rational and you know they wil not take things too personally.

Not saying there aren't any genuinely good people... but I always imagine devil as a proper polite man in business casual atttire.