http://www.metafilter.com/tags/OnKindness Posts tagged with 'OnKindness' at MetaFilter. Sat, 03 Jan 2009 12:54:33 -0800 Sat, 03 Jan 2009 12:54:33 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/77937/Love%2DThy%2DNeighbor%2DWhy%2DHave%2DWe%2DBecome%2DSo%2DSuspicious%2DOf%2DKindness <a href=" http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jan/03/society-politics">Love Thy Neighbor: Why Have We Become So Suspicious Of Kindness? </a> <em>Most people, as they grow up now, secretly believe that kindness is a virtue of losers. But agreeing to talk about winners and losers is part and parcel of the phobic avoidance, the contemporary terror, of kindness. Because one of the things the enemies of kindness never ask themselves - and this is now an enemy within all of us - is why we feel it at all. Why are we ever, in any way, moved to be kind to other people, not to mention to ourselves? Why does kindness matter to us?</em> tag:metafilter.com,2009:site.77937 Sat, 03 Jan 2009 12:54:33 -0800 AdamPhillips Altruism BarbaraTaylor Compassion Kindness Love OnKindness TheGuardian jason's_planet