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Question:Do you think we can harm people with too much kindness?


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Do you think we can harm people with too much kindness?

Yes ... give a poor person anything but a job and you are handicapping that person. Give a lazy many food, a home, a car, the cloths on his back and all you have is a lazy man who doesn't apprieciate what you gave them. Give a poor person a job and make them earn their keep and you give that person pride, work ethic, and a job well done along with all the stuff they need and want paid for by them with the money they make with an honest days labor.

Spoil a child with gifts and kindness and that's what you will have as an adult ... a spoiled adult that doesn't know how to stand on their own two feet and doesn't have any desire too. Expecting others to take care of you because some body crippled you as a child taking care of you too much and not forcing you or letting you grow into an indipendent well rounded individual is SAD & Pathetic.

Sometimes I find an overflow of kindness to be really annoying. So, it's possible :)

I think you can enfeeble them with taking over too many of the tasks that they should be doing. I think that we may not always be honest if we say things that aren't true in order to be kind.
Kindness is only kindness when he helps someone to cope.
It is no longer kindness when it impairs them in their ability to cope on their own.

At times it is. Some people think that to be kind you must be like a warm fuzzy hug. In fact to be kind means that you do what is best for another's wellbeing. Usually it is warm and fuzzy but occasionally it can seem harsh.

No, but sometimes kindness isn't genuine and sometimes people won't like others even if they are kind.
It really depends cuz if you're a really nice person and a lot of people happen to pursue you then I guess it kind of is harming others.

Yes, too much of anything is harmful.

Of course. That is called spoiled.

Yes, The interpretation I have found goes like this
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. or
Love thy neighbour as thy self.
Yes they become dependent and cannot function themselves

sometimes,maybe

yes in short if you are always kind and always there the person may become dependent upon you and that is not good for you or them that is just an example other scenarios are possible

No, it is not. Kindness means kindness only.
Too much kindness is in fact is a negative trait with an element of weakness in it. Kindness is shown to those who deserve it and has a positive effect on the subject, whereas, too much kindness tend to spoil.