Love isn't the same as kindness. Kindness is to be polite and inoffensive. Love is to selflessly will the good of another, even if one has to be unkind.
I would argue that being polite and inoffensive isn't even necessarily 'kindness'. There's nothing 'kind' about enabling someone hooked on drugs or any other destructive habit until their addiction finally destroys them & sends them into an early grave, after all. I would categorize the coddling & enabling of people's worst impulses demanded under the name of 'tolerance', 'kindness', 'empathy', etc. by the left as more just 'being nice', in the same sense that white Minnesotan liberals are putting their 'Minnesota nice' on display for all those Somalis screwing their state up.
Neither love nor kindness have anything to do with inoffensiveness.
Look at 4chan. If they're calling you a fag and telling you to kill yourself, that's kindness, it means they've read your works and thought about them, and give you honesty in response. Look at Canada. If they're calling you sexually-diverse and telling you to seek MAID services, that's NOT kindness, even though it's the exact same message as on 4chan, but with such polite and sanitary terms, they genuinely wish death upon you.
Love isn't the same as kindness. Kindness is to be polite and inoffensive. Love is to selflessly will the good of another, even if one has to be unkind.
I would argue that being polite and inoffensive isn't even necessarily 'kindness'. There's nothing 'kind' about enabling someone hooked on drugs or any other destructive habit until their addiction finally destroys them & sends them into an early grave, after all. I would categorize the coddling & enabling of people's worst impulses demanded under the name of 'tolerance', 'kindness', 'empathy', etc. by the left as more just 'being nice', in the same sense that white Minnesotan liberals are putting their 'Minnesota nice' on display for all those Somalis screwing their state up.
There's a pretty good collection of 4chan posts that nails the difference from many years ago, and which I think still absolutely applies to this 'Nice Doctrine'.
You're right.
Yeah, agreeing with this. Niceness is actually a problem.
Neither love nor kindness have anything to do with inoffensiveness.
Look at 4chan. If they're calling you a fag and telling you to kill yourself, that's kindness, it means they've read your works and thought about them, and give you honesty in response. Look at Canada. If they're calling you sexually-diverse and telling you to seek MAID services, that's NOT kindness, even though it's the exact same message as on 4chan, but with such polite and sanitary terms, they genuinely wish death upon you.