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 !