Krunkman,
I'm not trying to be argumentative, but there is a lot of ground between treating someone as a "piece of meat" and trying to cultivate an ongoing relationship of some level of seriousness outside the bounds of our hobby world. As a random example, I'll bet you're very polite and considerate toward salespeople with whom you interact. I used to get coffee at my corner convenience store and pretty quickly the clerk there would greet me each day. We got to joking regularly and asking if anything was wrong if one of us seemed off our game that day. But it never went beyond that. This is an imperfect analogy because in the hobby world there is physical intimacy (all fantasy of course, for those LE types who may be listening in,) which can lead us to think about emotional intimacy and consequent emotional attachment. But my point is that that there's no contradiction between treating someone well and having real boundaries.