Human Kindness...

[one_voice]

[drm604]

1. Cruelness is often a symptom of fear and weakness.

The truly strong have no reason to be cruel.

[Edim]

11. Not often, always.

[drm604]

15. Of course.

I worded that poorly.

[opihimoimoi]

2. Single Issue Shit induces Cruelty....sometimes fatally

[barbtries]

3. great quote

should find a way to get it in front of low information republicans who seem to believe that cruelty is an american virtue.

[Lionessa]

4. Well, my knee jerk to the OP title is... what an oxymoron.

Humans aren't kind unless they see something in it for themselves, imo.

[roguevalley]

5. i disagree respectfully. i believe it to be our human condition when fascists aren't

Standing on our necks. We would have died out long ago without it.

[Lionessa]

6. Then perhaps your knowledge of history around the world and through the eons isn't too keen.

Very few places or societies can claim any long term kindness, and the few that perhaps were provably socially kind, are pretty much short lived over run by those that aren't.

[CJCRANE]

7. Those are two different things...

kindness within societies and kindness between societies.

In fact there's a book about research on human violence called "Atrocitology" which claims that humanity is getting less warlike.

On edit: in fact I'm sure there are plenty of examples of cruel and barbaric societies which didn't survive if we look through history. Also there are other factors involved which lead to the collapse of civilizations, things like climate, food supply etc

[Lionessa]

8. I think we actually are agreeing, just seemingly in a disagreeable way.

What I'm saying is that kindness both within and between a community(ies), is not a historical situation. It is a hope for the future. Since is it yet to be an accuracy, I find "human kindness" to be an oxymoron, for now. Hope for change, but not likely in my life time as the tides seem to be in the ebb at the moment, and I won't likely live long enough to see the flow.

[CJCRANE]

10. I think we're disagreeing in an agreeable way...

I see human kindness as the default instinct as we see in all these global uprisings where people join together to fight for each other's rights. People are sacrificing their lives for strangers and people they will never meet.

The unkind are the minority IMO, although they are a powerful minority.

[Lionessa]

13. IMO, most uprisings of any size have a very limited minority

of un-affected persons. Most involved in up-risings are fighting for themselves as much as their friends, family, and neighbors, because of the lot being in the same boat. I'm thinking of the "first they came for the ______, but that wasn't me, so I did nothing; then they came for __________, and that wasn't me so I did nothing, ..... by the time they came for me there was no one left to care."

And yes, that's a very poor paraphrase, but hopefully it reminds of the one I'm thinking of.

That's what I see as the over-riding human condition, human instinct; not kindness, not yet anyway.

[spanone]

9. k&r...

[hfojvt]

12. Do we still have to be cruel to be kind?

[lunatica]

14. Beat them until morale improves

[MedicalAdmin]

18. Lmfao. n/t

[Fire Walk With Me]

16. Excellent. K&R

[wakemewhenitsover]

17. K & R

Oh, to hear a president speak like that nowadays...