Also not just to cover their ass but also to demand a better standard of treatment from others towards them. So they behave badly but then demand kindness. Kindness is great but tolerance for intolerance is basically what they ask for. Twisting rhetoric to their selfish needs.
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This why "nice" and even "kind" are really bad words. Weasel words. Everybody superficially agrees we should be nice and kind and yet they are useless concepts without further strict definition.
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I read ‘kind’ as very different from ‘nice’.
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Eg speaking painful truth can be a kind thing to do, even if it is not being nice. Nice had much less sincere connotation for me. Same with ‘polite’, or ‘civil’.
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As for Dennett’s piece, I think indeed ‘kindness’ may be the wrong word there. Better ‘charity’ in argumentation. Never experienced Dennet’s arguments as especially kind.
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Iris van Rooij @IrisVanRooijI don’t think we need calls for ‘politeness’. Lots of ill faith can be hidden in politeness, making it only harder to call out. Instead we need more genuine kindness, compassion, humanity, respect, integrity & inclusivity in science. https://twitter.com/richarddmorey/status/1043857168062185472 …Show this thread1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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But yes agreed
@o_guest these words (including kindness) can be twisted to actually hide ill-intent and even abuse.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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But to clarify: I do still agree with the OP. The path on which this thread developed could in turn be twisted to be against Tom’s stance. I think that would be unfortunate.
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I'm with Tom 100%. But I think, like
@ContraPoints says, we live in an age of aesthetics and rhetoric sadly goes a much longer way than logic.
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To be fair to me, I said useless without further definition not useless full stop. 
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Ah, sorry -- I totally understood where you were coming from. Sadly, like you see people twisting words like 'kindness', I also see them twisting the idea of 'needs further definition' as meaning: 'I can keep being very unkind because there is no further definition'.
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