Esteem modifiers

It is interesting that one of the goals that occupies my Light Side is to boost everyone's self-esteem up to a self-sustaining level, and that one of my favourite Dark Side games is to make people feel bad about themselves by tearing down their hopes and dreams. I don't give in to that Dark Side urge too often, but sometimes it slips in there like the Octopus of Evil, squeezing through tiny gaps simply because that's what octopi love to do.

Mokalus of Borg

PS - I think that's a more apt analogy than I intended.
PPS - Because, you see, the Octopus of Evil has to be spineless if it's an octopus.