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How is kindness a bad thing? I thought that was universally agreed to be a good message to have in a piece of media. I guess the excuse is they don't want media to have messages at all but like, how would you even have a movie where the hero has no values that they stand for?

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[–] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 60 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Hey, fascists don't deserve kindness.

[–] 13igTyme@lemmy.world 14 points 4 days ago (5 children)

But what if you kill them with kindness?

[–] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 16 points 4 days ago

I don't care how you do it, it's something that must be done either way.

[–] helvetpuli@sopuli.xyz 7 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Just be sure to make it look like an accident.

[–] 13igTyme@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

Like Bob Ross, just a happy accident.

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 4 days ago

Feels wrong to hide it.

Whatever gets the job done.

[–] Jaybird@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

In that case, the end justify the means. :-)

[–] Pornacount128@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I disagree. Every person on this earth deserves happiness, and to avoid suffering. They also deserve kindnesa. That, however, does NOT mean they can do whatever they want. "Hey fascist, you do not get to tell people that kindness is bad" is not an unkind statement. You can have boundaries while still being kind. I really don't believe we're ever going to win the fight against fascism with more hate. Hate breeds hates. Kill them with kinds is a saying for a reason. If you tell a hateful person that you love them in spite of their hate, they don't know what to do. They want people to hurt because they are hurt. If you accept their hurt, they will stop trying to hurt you (disclaimer this isn't always black and white for each individual person, this is a philosophy that applies to humanity)

[–] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

You're just ignorantly wrong on that one. Way to completely fail to learn the lessons of MLK Jr. A person very much interested in being kind to others.

"He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.”

and many other quotes with a similar glint. How was his kindness rewarded? (hint: he was murdered in front of his own house) Evil people DO NOT deserve kindness. Even Jesus went whipping up on shitheads trying to turn a profit in the church.

Only a complete fool willing to sit by and watch the world burn allows terrible people to march around with torches to set things alight.