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Strength that doesn't need witnesses to prove itself.
means Having a disposition to be generous, considerate, and gentle toward others.
from From Old English 'gecynde,' meaning natural or native — originally tied to 'kin,' as in family. The old logic: treating someone well is simply treating them as kin, as one of your own. Over centuries the word drifted from 'belonging to the same stock' to 'acting the way family should act toward family' — and finally settled into meaning warmth and goodwill shown to anyone at all, kin or stranger.
- old meaning
- once meant natural or innate, like kinship
- easy to fake
- nice is kind's cheap knockoff, for an audience
- research finding
- costs you little, compounds in others for years
- the test
- how you treat people who can't help you