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Originally Posted by Xanafax  Frankly I would rather be right than kind. To accept reality - to be right - is the best way to live. To be kind at the expense of rationality is just stupid. |
Yeah, irrationality is stupid.
I basically think there are two types of kindness: short-term and long-term. Short-term kindness is when you make someone feel good about themselves, regardless of the circumstances. Long-term kindness is when you say what you think is the truth, regardless of how people react to it.
Still, I think the easy answer to this problem is that we should be both kind and right. Or as the Buddha put it:
""Words have the power to both destroy and heal.
When words are both true and kind,
they can change our world."