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A community where people are only as nice as they need to be is a crappy place. There are many reasons why.

A community where people are only as nice as they need to be is a crappy place. There are many reasons why. One: people feel the required level of kindness depends on how they are treated. But this is a matter of perspective. Here’s a story about parents getting into a brawl over seating at a kindergarten graduation. No doubt each of them thought that they were fully justified every step of the way. There’s a famous study where two people are told to take turns poking each other, each time exactly as hard as the other person just poked them. Consistently, the two participants poked each other

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