Pointless.

*...Dr James Page is a writer and educationist, and a recognized authority within the field of peace education...*

The good doctor has gone soft in the head. The best remedy for the condition acquired from too many years living in unreality, is to embrace it joyfully and be not afraid of it.

And a request from the unkind to the kind, is please leave us in peace, and spare us all from this neurotic crap.

Dan

While we are being kind they are tearing down our statues, trashing our culture. Teaching our kids that Western Civilisation is Bad,bad,bad in our schools, never pointing out the bloody histories of the countries of their Cash Cow overseas Uni Students. So the professors can earn $200,000 a year. It’s a fools game if you keep being kind to people and they keep kicking you in the guts.
It has to be a two way street.

While we try to be tolerant and kind to some of these people, they spit hate at our culture and use our law courts to gain power over our government.

America will loose its Democracy in 24 hours, Judge Scalia of the Supreme Court just called for a day’s stay of the swearing in of the Electrol college so the Supreme CRT can look again at the massive voting fraud, the leftwing lawcourts and officials say didn’t happen despite overwhelming evidence.

Authoritarian Governt is close to gaining power. Authoritarian government who can’t be voted out become tyrannical governments, not accountable and riding roughshod over the people. You can even be murdered like Epstein under these regimes.

Australia needs to pay close attention to what’s happening in America, because our leftwing here is every bit as extreme as the American left especially certain leftwing voters.

Depends whether it is delivered from on high as endless verbal vomit or done without ever expecting reward, just because you can!

Kindness for its own sake as common practice (the Christian Golden rule) is far better than its complete absence in the dog eat dog world of yesterday!

Kindness seems to be mostly limited to those of us with the least giving the most? Doing most of the heavy lifting?

It is written, inasmuch as you do unto the least among you, you also do unto me!
Alan B.

If you read enough, you will know that J.C., was a left-wing radical in virtually all he espoused! And that an inherent internal genuine Christian ethos and right-wing conservatism are mutually incompatible and or completely opposing ideologies!

At the end of your life and when you have to face the man in the mirror? The one who you cannot fool with endless lies and falsehoods/blame-shifting!

How will you justify your time and existence? By your many acts of unheralded Christian kindness or its opposite, extreme right-wing activism (I'm alright Jack) and its constant companion, blame-shifting? And I know you know who you are!
Alan B.

Kindness is certainly a good place to start!

Why not check out the book titled The Dalai Lama A Policy of Kindness and do a search of the topic the Dalai Lama and kindness.

And why is kindness a good and necessary place to start?

As ego's, we not only create problems for one another by what we are doing and communicating both verbally and emotionally in outward physical terms, but we also transmit it throughout the universe, like super-powered transmitter stations, particularly directing it towards individuals, groups, places, and processes on which our attention is fixed.
We are always broadcasting our emotional states to one another, and we even bring about changes in Nature through our individual and collective habits at the level of energy, in the subtler dimensions of personality and psyche.
If we do not become responsible for our emotional state then we will continue to physically act in ways by which we trouble and aberrate one another, and we will also directly broadcast our aberrations to one another through the medium of our subtle energetic and psychic dimensions.

What then does The Donald communicate and empower?

Does this Konfronting appeal to "Kindness" put into doubt OLO Kommenters need for Konflict!?

Trump's Kampf (Struggle) has failed :(

These Americans have voted for Biden in Peace! http://youtu.be/71MPsqS7tCk

Dammit!

Well said Alan B. and Daddy D.

What if the action of loving kindness is an intrinsic aspect inherent in Reality Itself, or indeed a universal moral law.

And was not the social gospel or good principles of Saint Jesus essentially an affirmation of, and a call to practice this universal moral law.

This intrinsic moral disposition has even been affirmed by scientific studies conducted by the Heartmath Institute, and even by the work of Masaru Emoto as explained in his book The Hidden Messages of Water in which he shows that water responds to positive affirmations. Which is of course also interesting because the human body-mind complex is 70 percent water, implying that in essence the human body-mind is a liquid crystal. Indeed the body is in essence structured water.

In her books The Rainbow and the Worm, and Living Rainbow H2O Mae-Wan Ho also posits, and explains why/how the human body is a liquid crystal.

Thanks for such a varied range of comments. Just two things: a) The full citation for the original article is Page, J.S. 2020. 'Is kindness enough?' Australian Ethics. 20(1):3,4. Australian Ethics is published by the Australian Association for Professional and Applied Ethics. b) Readers may be also interested in accessing the work 'The War for Kindness' (2019), by Stanford psychology professor Emil Zaki. Excerpts are available on his website: https://www.warforkindness.com/.

Extending Kindness to those who want to see your demise is stupid !

Thanks to the contributor under the name "Individual" for the comment last Wednesday afternoon. I am, however, curious. What did you or do you mean by "want to see your demise?"

Dr James Page,
I just realised that my remark sounds like as it if were directed at your writing, this was not my intention.
In far too many cases kindness is seen as guilt & that in turn is then opportunistically used as another platform for racists to bleat discrimination.
Kindness is indeed noble when it is genuine. I found that inter-racial kindness is nearly always exploited as I indicated above.
We see it often enough here how thankless hangers-on perpetually bite the hands that feed them.
I have yet to hear of a phrase that betters 'one must be cruel to be kind' !
Genuine, natural kindness has been targeted for extinction by our modern education & social engineering systems.

Hi Individual. Before I start, I should put you at ease by saying that I didn't interpret your comment as a personal attack - you were and are making important points. And I agree the "cruel to be kind" adage (comes from Will Shakespeare BTW) is very useful. Interestingly, that adage has come up in a number of offline conversations I've had on the article. Anyways, I took your comment about folk who wish our demise to refer to the phenomenon of war, and that's a valid point. In war, one attempts to kill or injure others, and it is tricky to argue that this is being kind. We could say more on this. And I agree that those who respond to kindness with ingratitude is a problem, as is the situation that society and our educational systems don't generally inculcate kindness. I didn't however quite understand your point about racists. Could you expand?

Could you expand?
James page,
I have lived much of my life as part of a racial minority. I found that the real racists are those who perpetually bleat discrimination. Yes, there are those who use Race in conversation in jest & they're not racist. Racists are like journalists, always digging for the best/worst in a situation depending on what best fits their insidious agenda.
I know of blokes black & white who called each other by some rather racist terms in jest. They were all friends & they made fun of those humourless types who interrupted in conversations that were totally none of their business simply because they found the language used "offensive". Well, those of us who are reasonably normal find them offensive !
To answer your question, you just have to listen to ABC Radio or watch SBS & take in the racial hatred promoting rhetoric. An even more blatant example was that period of that integrity-devoid BLM hype recently !

Hi Individual. Interesting perspectives. Yes (if I understand you correctly) racism is much more complex than might appear on the surface. And (again if I understand you correctly) folk wanting to be kind can sometimes be very patronizing. BTW, I hope that this post in itself doesn't came over as patronizing - that is certainly not my intention! Thanks for the interchange.