Kindness is a choice. It is not based on political bias or social class. The definition is subjective as well.
The illiterate OP seems to think it means working people supporting lazy fucks.
That ain't the definition.
Hello evince,
"Science says kindness matters "
I agree.
That's why it is important to show kindness in our posts to one another.
I have seen some really unkind things said here. Imagine if the person reading that is wondering if anyone, just anyone, actually cares about them.
It is only logical to assume that a percentage of nasty things posted in a chat room online have resulted in the final straw for someone considering suicide.
Like somebody looking for just someone, anyone, to reach out to them. And if that last stranger they encounter doesn't take the initiative and do it, they they will jump off the Golden Gate bridge. Or whatever else they are considering doing to end their life. And some of those will be successful.
And maybe it could have been averted if some stranger had said something in a chat room to show that they cared.
Being mean to people on the internet could result in them offing themselves.
But if you're nice, no guilt. It wasn't you that pushed them over the edge. Maybe they live and begin to see the world a different way. It could happen.
What can it hurt to show a little kindness?
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Hello evince,
So what do you think you're doing by being mean on the internet? Are you going to force kindness down their throats whether they like it or not?
The irony of you posting this thread is astonishing.
It's a wonderful thread but you don't practice what you preach.
You could fix that...
I know you tried before and failed. Many did when we attempted to have 'nice week.' No rude posts? Remember that? You said you were in, said you would do it. It really was a good idea.
But you found out just as most did that it is far easier said than done. Habits are hard to change. Even if part of you wants to change.
So you just blew it off.
And now you come up with all these ways to rationalize being mean.
Like you think you're saving the nation.
Why don't you begin with saving yourself.....
That, apparently, is a big enough challenge.
It's easy to care about people you like.
The challenge is to care about the ones you don't like.
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cawacko (01-20-2020)
So this means you are changing your tune ?
"Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything." Joseph Stalin
The USA has lost WWIV to China with no other weapons but China Virus and some cash to buy democrats.
Hello evince,
"pretending human emotions are meaningless lies OTHER humans pretend are real means you will fail "
Good advice for someone posting messages to other humans on a chat site.
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TRUMP WILL TAKE FORTY STATES...UNLESS THE SAME IDIOTS WHO BROUGHT US THE 2020 DUNCE-O-CRAT IOWA CLUSTERFUCK CONTINUE THEIR SEDITIOUS ACTIVITIES...THEN HE WILL WIN EVEN MORE ..UNLESS THE RED CHINESE AND DNC COLLUDE, USE A PANDEMIC, AND THEN THE DEMOCRATS VIOLATE ARTICLE II OF THE CONSTITUTION, TO FACILLITATE MILLIONS OF ILLEGAL, UNVETTED, MAIL IN BALLOTS IN THE DARK OF NIGHT..
De Oppresso Liber
There is nothing subjective about the golden rule, and that is the beauty of the moral philosophy of Jesus of Nazareth.
One of my favorite moral tenets is articulated in the ethical philosophy of Zoroastrianism: "good thoughts, good words, good deeds." And that is exactly how one purifies their soul.
I am mean to evil
I always will be
it deserve no safe harbor
Kindness is wasted on people who don't honor kindness
In real life I am as kind as person as you could meet ( its the utter truth even if you wish to not believe it )
this place is NOT the real-world
this place ( the internets) is somewhere between reality and a stew of propaganda designed by people with bad intentions for mankind
YES this is a battlefield
on a battlefield you are only kind to those who surrender
You want me to be kind to you ?
Surrender to the facts
Oh and BTW I have NEVER told anyone to kill themselves on the internets and have gone after people on any side who say it
ask the poster formally known as watermark
that's a just in case someone is actually a human
the cold hard truth is the VAST majority of the right we speak to here are NOT HUMANS.
they are programs which are virtually costless weapons against the phycological wellbeing of people merely trying to discuss politics reasonably without destroying personal relationships
the Fox viewers are a couple of decades deep in a cult of misinformation and hate of their fellow man
in person its very hard to talk reality with them and shake them out of it
they wont listen
their brains are down an empty well and it takes weeks of cranking on the rope to get them out of that empty well
here is can get done more quickly
so the Russians and the like figured out they can beat the rope crankers over the head and stop the rescues
being nice to a program designed to find value in nice is a failing battle
let me clarify
The people Im MEAN TO are NOT PEOPLE
when will you figure that out?
NO ONE will ever be able to STOP this process
evil infiltrating areas where people are trying to work things out for the betterment of mankind
they very basics that every generation has lived through
what we have now reduced this dynamic down to is essentually just our "voices" ( well typed word but you get me)
One of the reasons I love this format
in real life when people see me they refuse to listen to me seriously
I have mentioned this before
Its the reality many women face
Men see nothing but sex and lots of women pre judge what my aims are
I am a tom boy caught in the body of what people perceive as a sex pot
I didn't order up this body
It was a vehicle assigned me
Its a healthy, strong and proficient vehicle but is very frequently misjudged and maligned vehicle
I in fact in the real world am very warm and welcoming to all ( its my actual nature) and I employ self deprecating humor to disarm people
the person you see here on this site is merely a fraction of who I actually am
I am here to fight a battle
I have my gear ready
and that s what you see here dude
this is NOT the real world
This is the new battlefield of world thought
It includes the enemy dressed as shepard ready to blow your vehicle up as you pass
Lets remember what 8 intel agencies and a Senate investigation told us
THE enemy is here and ready to destroy intelligent discussion
they seek to "trigger" metal distress and MELT snowflakes
what is a snowflake?
a beautiful aspect of what this wonderful world can produce
Unique unto its self and as beautiful as anything the world has to offer
HUMANS
individuals
the people who use that phrase are not human
bots designed to frustrate REAL HUMANS and make them give up on humanity and the discussion of how to make this world as wonderful as it can be
we have to become proficient in telling who is who and "who" is a what and not a who
I am NOT KIND to the tools of evil
There is NO NEED to be kind to the tires on the jeeps your enemies are driving arroundto heave grenades at you.
They are NOT HUMAN
learn this very basic new fact and internalize it
they are NOT HUMAN
Cypress (01-20-2020)
evince (01-21-2020)
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Yup. kindness would have worked with Hitler and the Nazis ...or ISIS..IDIOTS
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