I see signs everywhere, stickers, t-shirts, YouTubers saying at the end of their videos "be kind" "kindness is everything". Kindness is overrated. What they mean when they say this is don't be confrontational, don't be assertive, succumb. It encourages weakness. Strength should be the priority.
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Kindness is mostly superficial. It is good, but doesn’t necessarily mean you’re a good person.
Love your neighbor as yourself. Love is far more powerful because it speaks to who you are as a person, and love can be tough and may seem harsh at first glance, but true love is necessarily good.
That's essentially what I was trying to convey by differentiating kindness and niceness. Kindness being what achieves the best outcome even if it's not necessarily nice to the individual while niceness is performative and not necessarily in someone's best interest.