Being Nice Isn’t Enough To Sustain A Society

Undergirding niceness is kindness — but kindness and niceness are not the same thing.

Being nice to someone means you are inoffensive to them. Being kind means you’re looking out for them. It means you’re going to tell them something that they possibly don’t want to hear. If you have a friend who is a drug abuser and you simply say, “You do you,” that may be nice, but it’s not kind.