The fault-lines in Radical Kindness | by Waistcoat Dave | in CompassionateTroublemaking - Freedium
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The fault-lines in Radical Kindness | by Waistcoat Dave | in CompassionateTroublemaking - Freedium
So while kindness, in all its manifestations—care, altruism, compassion—was an important survival trait in a world where well-functioning groups were necessary for survival, universal kindness probably wasn’t a great survival trait. Inevitably, other tribes would be selectively kind, shedding all of that kindness when dealing with other tribes. And... See more
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Far from undermining the point of kindness, this serves as a reminder that it’s good for us. Being kind creates more pleasure for us than pain; Epicurus would take this as evidence that it is the wisest way to live, while the Stoics would embrace it for the fact that it is a rational consequence of living in undisturbed accordance with all things.
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believing you harbor no such animus. These hidden biases can be detected via clever tests. For example, a person may say he has no racial prejudice, yet when presented with a reaction time test in which words that have pleasant or unpleasant connotations are paired with the words black or white, words with pleasant meaning are more quickly paired w
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