Kindness

When did kindness come to be considered as the overarching value for society to achieve? We see it everywhere now, on bumper stickers and t-shirts, billboards, inspirational plaques and posters.

Has anyone considered what elevating this value, taken to its logical extreme, would look like?

I am not advocating any value replace it because I do not believe there is one most important value. They are all, responsibility, respect, hard work, right thinking, reason, loyalty, honesty, diligence, self motivation and control, important and work together.

If everyone is just kind what will be accomplished?

And what does it mean, this command to Be Kind? In whose estimation? When we stick up for the bullied we are certainly not going to be regarded by the bully as kind. When in business a company gives its all to push out a superior product it’s competitor(s) will certainly not regard this as kind.

So I think we should carefully consider exalting any one value over others lest we become lopsided in our regard and actions.