— Not voting makes me feel less bad about the taxes that I'm evading.
Increasingly, it feels like Franzen is a scapegoat for white guilt, a white liberal even other white liberals can hate, so they feel less bad about themselves.
So here, I don't feel better, but I feel less bad than in those places where there are these provincial notions.
In other words, connecting kids to their strengths helps make them feel good but may not necessarily make them feel less bad; the actions needed to reduce ill-being are different from those needed to produce well-being.
Surely bearing witness to couples' quarrels feels less bad to the pros, those credentialed and compensated marriage and family therapists whose job it is to help significant others work through issues and pain?
In combination with a few other experiments, this suggests that animals drink water in order to "feel less bad," Allen said, that is, they are not so much pursuing something rewarding as trying to alleviate an uncomfortable sensation or reduce an aversive drive.
Every time I stand in front of an audience to address racial oppression in America, I know that I am facing a lot of white people who are in the room to feel less bad about racial discrimination and violence in the news, to score points, to let everyone know that they are not like the others, to make black friends.
Soldiers like Jack in Siegfried Sassoon's The Hero tend to be more or less reluctant participants in events that are beyond their control and understanding, stumbling almost accidentally into the heroic role that society assigns to them to make itself feel less bad about their actual fate.
Rose, the waif, defeats any attempt he can muster to engage her, although typically when he does once have sex with her for a few seconds she is quite pleased because she feels less bad about the money he is spending on her, taking her across America in his camper van.
