Comment on Why is kindness often viewed as a sign of naïveté?
Chainweasel@lemmy.world 10 months ago
People sometimes have difficulty walking the line between being nice and being a doormat and let people take advantage of their kindness. This bitters some people and they start to see their own kindness as a weakness.
When this happens they tend to think people who are kind just haven’t had that bad experience yet and that they’re naive about the way the world “really works”.
dontbelievethis@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
drone509@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
I think there might be a kind of tragedy of the commons thinking there, as in “Somebody is going to take advantage of this naive person, it may as well be me.”
compostgoblin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
It’s funny, but I feel like I strive to be kind because I’m aware of how the world really works. Like, I’ve been let down by reality and know the world can be a nightmare already, so why would I want to pile even more on someone and make their life harder, you know?
shalafi@lemmy.world 10 months ago
“Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you’ve got a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies-"God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.”
― Kurt Vonnegut
dingus@lemmy.world 10 months ago
You sound very sweet, OP. Never change. A lot of people are just miserable themselves and want company being miserable.
datavoid@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
Oh, sweet summer child
/s