What Is Kindness?

All persons should

* protect personal life and liberty and prevent torture and extinction;
* practice virtue and resist vice; and
* choose and pursue their values.

Humans should value love, family, fellowship, and industry.

clipped from humanknowledge.net Kindness. Kindness is the most sublime of the virtues. Kindness includes being in a good mood and assuming in others the best motive that is consistent with available evidence. The virtue of kindness makes humans want to help their fellow humans, especially those in need. A common view is that the best form of kindness is charity. Charity is the sharing of material wealth with the needy. But throughout history the greatest improvements in human well-being have come not from charity but from justice and knowledge. Humanity's surplus of injustice, superstition, and ignorance is a far bigger problem than its deficit of charity.