Comment on Why is kindness often viewed as a sign of naïveté?
Chainweasel@lemmy.world 4 days 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 4 days ago
drone509@discuss.tchncs.de 3 days 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 4 days 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 4 days 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 4 days ago
You sound very sweet, OP. Never change. A lot of people are just miserable themselves and want company being miserable.
datavoid@lemmy.ml 4 days ago
Oh, sweet summer child
/s