News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Kindness is Underrated (2014). Parent comment

Re:Kindness is Underrated (2014) by coldtea on Sunday July 16, 2017 @06:41PM (#14784483)
>It's not about "difficulty" ... as in one takes 5 calories to type out "that's stupid" but the polite sentence takes the same effort or less.

The difficulty is in suppressing knee-jerk reactions and hardwired negative emotions, not on the energy level required.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Kindness is Underrated (2014) by jasode on Sunday July 16, 2017 @07:22PM (#14784634)
>, not on the energy level required.

It was about energy in this case because I was responding to BenchRouter's specific context for "difficulty" when he wrote: "expend the extra effort to type out "this is stupid"". (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14782723)

[ Parent | on HN ]