Can kindness be cultivated as a skill? How?
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Example: It takes skill to make subtle conceptual distinctions, such as we’re doing here. I’ve noticed in your writing that you’re very good at this skill. But if I try and do that so that I can be right, then that skill is in service of righteousness not kindness.
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is there a natural dilemma in the tension between truth (the sentiment underlying righteousness, which is just truth+assholishness) and kindness? I feel like some of the hardest ethical challenges involve finding ways to be truthful and kind at the same time.
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Of course. But without the state of mind powering it I’d argue that it’s generalized skill training, not training in kindness. The state of wishing others well is necessary, but not sufficient, for gaining skill in kindness. This state of well wishing IS what makes it kindness.
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measuring one's sensing accuracy and precision when kindness is needed and measuring the (delta) pain relieved of the target during/after actuation of kindness?
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What follows for me, is that it’s extremely important to have a solid baseline of wishing others well, so that the specified skills we develop (and we do need to develop them, I agree) aren’t weaponized against others.
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