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> According to?

General consensus. Also it seems to lead to more stable societies when people are kind to eachother. That creates mutual safety and comfort. Humans are uncomfortable with constant conflict and violence. Doing things that lead to that are wrong.

You're right in that there's no god or universal measure against which we can say that being good is Good and being bad is Bad, we have to just throw our hands up and pick, luckily humans mostly agree and so picking being Good isn't inherently a conflict-causing thing, except to those who prefer people are constantly at war with eachother. I'm perfectly fine saying those folks that prefer that are valid in their way of thinking, but invalid in trying to apply it, and therefore should be stopped.

> Being kind is being weak.

Well it's a bit silly for you to argue against universal morality and then argue for universal concepts of strength and weakness. Anyway I disagree, being kind takes tremendous strength.

> It forces you into situations u dont wanna be in in the first place.

Ah! Being kind doesn't always mean saying "yes," sometimes it just means saying "no" instead of shouting it.



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