Love and Responsibility

To manipulate is to "handle skillfully by hand." Manipulation is reserved for tools--objects made by man for his use. Manipulation implies a relationship, a one-sided bond of utility. It is the basis of the master-craft relation. The user manipulates the used in a way that is advantageous to the user.  Manipulation is at once skillful and destructive, wearing down the used object to its nub and ultimately destroying it for the ends of building, constructing or creating. An artist manipulates his paints and brush, a writer her pen and ink, and hatred his humanity.