touchy-feely

The biodiversity argument is not a warm and touchy-feely one, but it is certainly an economic and social one that should only enhance the touchy-feely arguments of saving a precious animal.

This isn't strictly touchy-feely stuff here, there's a hard cost to society when you jail people without any thoughts towards true justice.

Let's have these touchy-feely visual learner team player super duper people learn about continuations in Scheme, monads in Haskell, the massive libraries in.

Language-level abstraction takes away the touchy-feely inspection I like, and there's no point re-inventing the wheel.

There are infinitely many ways to be neither touchy-feely nor abusive.

As a side note, if the company wishes to pretty much sell to 'big pharma', why then do they publish these touchy-feely tech-crunch articles at all?

Feels like hacker news is drowning in touchy-feely stuff.

HN is full of touchy-feely folks, hence the downvotes.

At the risk of sounding a little too touchy-feely, Meditation helps you: a) Be more compassionate and choose what is right, instead of what brings more material wealth.

Too much touchy-feely, pseudo-scientific stuff makes me nervous.

It was a fair bit more touchy-feely than C2, because instead of the technical aspects it includes a lot of applied psychology and sociology and observances on how groups behave.

It sounds like touchy-feely pop-psych, but think about it: you saw that getting better at interviews would land you better jobs, so you worked on interview skills, and you got better jobs.

Nor is this about making HN "touchy-feely" or, as another commenter put it, Panglossian.

If they're a touchy-feely person, use "I feel like", if they're a visual person, use "I can see that", etc.

And still nobody could provide any rational statement why Apple's kb/mouse combo was worth $100 other than vague hand waving about being more "productive" or "feeling better about yourself" or some other touchy-feely nonsense.

(Yes, I do mean that in the "touchy-feely" emotional sense; this is important (not trying to dismiss the idea, just using glib humour to forestall inevitable negative comments - some people are uncomfortable recognizing we have emotions and are affected by them...)).