Mustafa Abu Aaliyah

Kindness and truth

When kindness becomes the highest purpose of truth, truth becomes threatened.

Kindness is good as an ideal, but not as an expectation and demand. Then it loses its beauty and constructiveness. It is not kind to expect that people mustn’t speak about what is right, true, honest or of value to them, or stand for it. Kindness doesn’t not take out assertion and firmness, nor is vice versa a must. Kindness is one good moral principle but there are others as well, such as integrity. One cannot have natural and genuine conversations without also setting aside kindness to some extent. Our main focus should be on genuineness and constructive dialogue, and the points we relay, not conformity to kindness. The best change is also that which you begin by practicing and emboding yourself. Too often, the concept of kindness is used to criticize the person who says something when instead the focus should be on what they actually have to say and what point they want to make. A kind world is kind towards everything good, not just people. Focus on strengthening those who are receivers of unkindness, not reprimanding those who doesn’t fit our belief in kindness.