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0 pointsBeetleB1y ago0 comments

Yet another faulty categorization and coopting - this time of both words.

Kind is only the exception to the norm if you're in a crappy culture. In some places the ethic is such that kindness is the norm.

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there's already a word for using a specific type of soft language regardless as to intent, and it's "polite"

don't know why we need to quibble about the meaning of "nice" or invent a new word when polite will do

politeness, unlike kindness or niceness, has no implication of intent, only tone, which is what's trying to be conveyed

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0 pointsBeetleB1y ago0 comments

Yet another faulty categorization and coopting - this time of both words.

Kind is only the exception to the norm if you're in a crappy culture. In some places the ethic is such that kindness is the norm.

there's already a word for using a specific type of soft language regardless as to intent, and it's "polite"

don't know why we need to quibble about the meaning of "nice" or invent a new word when polite will do

politeness, unlike kindness or niceness, has no implication of intent, only tone, which is what's trying to be conveyed

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