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I respect this view, though my personal experience has been that kindness is one of the easiest virtues to corrupt. I prefer truthfulness.

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I really do tend to think that kindness is the ur-virtue. If you aren't basically kind, I don't want to be around you. Period.

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Well, fortunately, I've always been better at truthfulness than kindness. Perhaps I value what I find the harder virtue. Truth is easy.

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The one person who managed to be exceptionally kind, mostly did so through being unremittingly honest. Left a mark.