Kindness is Underrated (2014)

Re:Kindness is Underrated (2014) by wildmusings on Sunday July 16, 2017 @12:41PM (#14782774)

There is a big difference between being NICE and being GOOD.

To paraphrase Charles Murray: "nice" is a moment-to-moment tactic for avoiding conflict, not a guiding principle for living your life. We should default to being nice amicable people, but being good often requires otherwise.

Unfortunately, niceness has been raised to the highest virtue in recent years. This is a mistake with civilizational consequences.

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Re:Kindness is Underrated (2014) by humanrebar on Sunday July 16, 2017 @01:31PM (#14783099)

Exactly. It's good to discretely tell a friend about his body odor. But it's certainly not nice.

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Re:Kindness is Underrated (2014) by TulliusCicero on Sunday July 16, 2017 @02:40PM (#14783478)

What about telling another poster on the internet about their typo? (discreet, not discrete)

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Re:Kindness is Underrated (2014) by mustaflex on Sunday July 16, 2017 @03:04PM (#14783602)

I think it's funny, at least in this case :D.

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Re:Kindness is Underrated (2014) by TheCoelacanth on Monday July 17, 2017 @09:52AM (#14788472)

Telling someone about their body odor continuously certainly doesn't sound good.

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Re:Kindness is Underrated (2014) by humanrebar on Sunday July 16, 2017 @04:08PM (#14783894)

Ha! Fair enough.

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