But they decided my psychic ability to sense when people were thinking bad thoughts about me couldn't be harnessed in any usable way. They said (I believe) the only possible use would be to give others a sense of existential dread and anxiety so bad they would suicide, but they would have to build a machine to transmit my ability into another person and it would have been a whole thing so they just said fuck it poor bastard.
Unless they were a literal saintly person and then since no one would be thinking bad thoughts about them they would actually feel a deep sense of peace when "attacked" by the machine.