What does it mean to be kind?

Answer 1

Show respect and consideration for the feelings of others. Also do nice things for people without expectation of reward, or even gratitude. Be ready to help those in need.

Answer 2

What a wonderful thing it is to be kind! I can think of no other attribute I admire more in a person than kindness.My idea of being kind is doing things for others as acts of love, not because you feel guilty or because it was expected of you.I think one single unwarranted act of kindness can change the world, I know that I can vividly remember two acts of kindness that changed my life and my impression of the world. That is allot of change for two simple acts!

Answer 3

To be a good alien is to be kind to others.

'Birth, Death and Genus
§ 221

The process of Kind brings it to a being of its own. Life being no more than the idea immediate, the product of this process breaks up into two sides. On the one hand, the living individual, which was at first presupposed as immediate, is now seen to be mediated and generated. On the other, however, the living individuality, which, on account of its first immediacy, stands in a negative attitude towards universality, sinks in the superior power of the latter.

The living being dies, because it is a contradiction. Implicitly it is the universal or Kind, and yet immediately it exists as an individual only. Death shows the Kind to be the power that rules the immediate individual. For the animal the process of Kind is the highest point of its vitality. But the animal never gets so far in its Kind as to have a being of its own; it succumbs to the power of Kind. In the process of Kind the immediate living being mediates itself with itself, and thus rises above its immediacy, only however to sink back into it again. Life thus runs away, in the first instance, only into the false infinity of the progress ad infinitum. The real result, however, of the process of life, in the point of its notion, is to merge and overcome that immediacy with which the idea, in the shape of life, is still beset.'

http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/sl/slidea.htm#SL221

'The Phenomenology of Mind

C: Free Concrete Mind: (AA) Reason

B: Realisation

b: The Law of the Heart, & the Frenzy of Self-Conceit

Φ 367. NECESSITY is for this new mode of consciousness what in truth self-consciousness finds necessity in its own case to be. In its new attitude self-consciousness regards itself as the necessary element. It knows that it has the universal, the law, immediately within itself, a law which, because of this characteristic of being immediately within consciousness as it is for itself, is called the Law of the Heart. This mode or attitude of consciousness is for itself, qua individual, essential reality as the former mode similarly was; but in the present case it is richer by the characteristic that this self-existence is taken as necessary or universal.

Φ 368. The law, therefore, which is primarily the law proper of self-consciousness, or a “heart” which however has in it a law, is the purpose which the self proceeds to realize. It remains to be seen whether its realization corresponds to its notion, and whether it will therein come to find this its law to be the essential ultimate fact.

Φ 369. Opposed to this “heart” stands a reality. For in the “heart” the law is in the first place merely for itself; it is not yet actualized, and thus, too, is something other than what the notion is. This other is thereby characterized as a reality which is the antithesis of what is to be realized, and consequently is the contradiction of the law and the individual. This reality is thus on the one hand a law by which the particular individuality is crushed and oppressed, a violent ordinance of the world which contradicts the law of the heart, and, on the other hand, a humanity suffering under that ordinance — a humanity which does not follow the law of tile heart, but is subjected to an alien necessity.'

http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/ph/phc1bb.htm

Answer 4

It means lots of people WILL use you.
It will be mistaken for weakness.
You will remain forever oversensitive to other peoples pain.
Only when you die will you ever know what wonderful hope and faith you have created on earth by acts of kindness.
It is a thankless role in life

Answer 5

"kind" has the same Old English root as "kin" and "ken." Ken means to know. Your kin are the people you know best, they are your kind of people, so you are kind to them, you treat them the way you want to be treated (or at least, the way your family taught you to treat family). Among kin the golden rule applies. But it's usually OK to rape and pillage folk who are "not our kind," whether they're from the other side of the island or the other side of the galaxy. "Species" (from Latin) also means kind. Folk of the same species can successfully mate and reproduce.

The wisdom of the ages is that we are all the same kind.

Answer 6

I It means you have a heart that cares about people. It means you were chosen to pick people up instead of putting them down. It also means you have a responsibilty to make people feel good. All of this adds up to being a nice person.

Answer 7

Depends on interpretation. The evil man, to spread his wikedness into the minds and hearths of others is good for his purpose and kind to him, so to himself the evil man his good and evil in the eyes of the "good man".The attributes of the evil man is to bring misery, profit, pain, war, plague, Devil, ect. The good man to preach virtue and human aid good for his purpose and kind to him, so to himself the good man is good but wicked in the eyes of the evil man, the good man will further preach to give to the poor, respect, love, admiration, God, ect.

Answer 8

Manifestation of Love.

Answer 9

Not to be mean and going along with everything nicely.

Answer 10

Treat everyone as if you were in a state of infinate bliss. Or as if you were rollin.