Yes, I have been aware of the upside of manipulation for several years, now. I am a writer (or like to think that I am, anyway), and writing is a form of manipulation. Do I want you to cry? Well, do _you_ want to cry? Doesn't matter. You have chosen to read my very sad book in which a puppy dies a horrible death, and a child is abandoned at Disneyland, and the hero leaps from a tiled roof to sweep his loved one out of the path of the runaway train, only to be smashed to bits when--after depositing her safely on a large tree branch--he is unable to halt his back swing and is obliterated by the same train. When your tears trickle from eye to chin, you will have been manipulated. Is this a bad thing? Presumably, it is not. Sure, perhaps you picked up my book, titled _Every Sad Thing in the Universe Working as One,_ and thought, _Hmm, must be a comedy, I need a laugh._ But if that is the case, then your ability to predict content from vocabulary clues leaves something to be desired. No, what I assume by your paying $35.95 (it is to cry) for the hardback copy of my fictitious tome is that you have interpreted the clues _correctly_ and decided that you want to be sad. That is, you want to be manipulated.

When I was a teen, I was in a circus. (No, I am not manipulating you to make you feel disbelief; I really was in a circus.) I did this one act called rolling globe. At one point in the performance, I walk my globe up and over a teeter totter and up a ramp to a platform. I pause, contemplating the next step. The next step is, literally, a step--four or five, in fact. I'm balanced on top of a large globe. I look at the steps that I'm supposed to negotiate. I look out at the audience, fear in my eyes, check out those steps again, take a halting step/roll forward, pause . . . and cross myself. The audience--manipulated--bursts out laughing. (Nothing kills comedy deader than describing it.)

Few things in the world are entirely black or entirely white. Manipulating your child to eat, well, even that might not be as black as wakeupkitty would have us believe. The example given involved being allergic to something. But what if you aren't allergic to any kind of food? And what if, in addition, you _hate_ vegetables. Should your parents just say, "Ah, well, the kid hates vegetables. I guess there's nothing we can do about that"? That is not the dialogue I would write.

By the way, I might have manipulated you, the reader of this comment. In the first paragraph, I wrote: "I am a writer (or like to think that I am, anyway)." If you assumed from that that I was trying to be self-deprecating, then I successfully manipulated you, because that was precisely what I was trying to make you think. Whether I am as humble as that comment might imply (or as arrogant as this comment might imply) is irrelevant, I wrote it specifically to make my reader, you, _think_ that I am a modest, unassuming bloke. (No, I'm not British, what makes you think that?)

Before I sign off, let me provide this as balance: Manipulating someone to do your job because you're too lazy to do it, to think that you are oh-so in love so that you will get in the will, to get so furious that he/she will attack the person who is annoying you, well, that ain't any kinda good.

Very entertaining freewrite, though when used in relation to bending others to your will, manipulation always has negative connotations no matter what the intentions of the manipulator.

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Bei Manipulation ist es wie bei allen anderen diesbezüglichen Sachen.
Derjenige, der es ausübt, entscheidet über positive oder negative Aktionen.
Bei Waffen ist es dasselbe:
Nicht die Waffen sind schlecht, oder negativ, sondern Derjenige, der abdrückt entscheidet, in welchem Zusammenhang er abdrückt.
Immer ist esder Mensch, der über positiv oder negativ entscheidet, egal welches Werkzeug er dafür benutzt!

I guess I know I can count on you. Manipulation it's a thing i don't like to do, but as you says as a mother sometimes I have to manipulate my girls to eat, especially with my 1 year baby.

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Manipulation is manipulation even in the case of your example to make your child eat. There might be a very good reason why it refuses to eat. 
Children still listen to their instinct/body adults don't.

I was forced to eat honey.
I could not. Quess what? I turned out to be allergic to it.

Small chance it will die for hunger. My youngest did not and lived, after I stopped breastfeeding) on air next to pancakes and french fries (no sauce) for the first 8 years of her life. Still a problematic eater. 
Quess what? She is the most healthiest one of all. Tall, slim, high IQ (so no brain damage).
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Excellent examples and good manipulation with the intent to help others is a wonderful motive! To success for the steemverse!

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