Can KINDNESS Kill?

Question

How?

Answer 1

The answer, as always, is "perspective".

People are constantly making a (sometimes unconscious) comparison between the self and the other. So when an angry person weighs himself against another's kindness, he finds himself wanting. He is then filled with shame-- the great silencer. Thus kindness kills anger.

As for *literally* killing, this too is possible. Consider the following: A homeless man begs on the street for money, learns to find shelter from the weather, and learns to avoid certain areas. In short, he learns to survive. He is then taken in by a long lost charitable Uncle. The Uncle provides him with food and shelter, and does not require him to work. Ten years later, the uncle dies, and the homeless nephew is dumped on the street, where he no longer knows how to survive.

So the removal of a depended kindness can kill.

Answer 2

Yes, kindness can kill. How? well my answer is a little different than most because I actually seen this happen. My aunt who loves animals, a little too much if I do say so myself. She had this dog that she loved dearly but she always gave it food constantly, gave the dog whatever it begged for. she would give it stakes, burgers, hotdogs, whole chickens. whatever it weened for, she thought she was doing good for the dog because it was never starving, however the dog became overweight and as a result developed diabetes and died. So yes kindness can kill. As one of my friends says sometimes it's kind to be cruel as well. In others words while your intention to be kind might be good, the desired effect may not be.

Answer 3

Yes without a doubt. When she knew she would not see me again, a Buddhist gave me a book, one of her very few possessions which she treasured and used daily.

Friendships and working relationships are meant to be transactional, they rely on reciprocity. I can not open that book which was a gift to her originally and inscribed with her name without really intense feelings of sadness.

She had so very few possessions, only some books and prayer things, few robes, nothing else. Yet was prepared to give me one of her most treasured possessions. She must have felt that book's loss every day yet she did it with love and happiness for me. I could not have been so generous.

Kindness can kill the receiver, when the price is too high for the giver.

Answer 4

Kindness can in fact kill the opposite of it. Hostility or hatred for example - if it is given in a sincere way that does not appear to be manipulative but instead coming straight from the heart. Try it! You'll see it works!

Answer 5

Not literally, if it's sincere kindness combined with the wisdom of what is truly in the best interest of the person. Excessive nurturing can in time diminish someone's ability to cope for themselves; this is often an unconscious selfish motivation; a need to control & possess.

Answer 6

Sure! KINDNESS CAN KILL!
Just like water to fire, it can. It's like when you give a hamburger with toxic sauce in it to a hungry bum on the street; That's a killing kind act, isn't it? JUST KIDDING!!!
OK, seriously, It's like being a good brother to an enemy. If someone out there is cruel to you,..cursing you to your soul,..jealous of your success,..doubtful of your motivations. Give him the nicest, stunning feed-backs that go against his expectations. It'll make him think to his core. It'll slowly flush out the negative blood from his system, and eventually silence his grump. Then when the hate is dead, you've just resurrected the lost friend in him.

Answer 7

It has been said that kindness can kill a person my smothering. But this is not kindness. This is worry and overprotectiveness and all things smothering. So the person being shown kindness cannot be "killed".

However, the person showing the kindness... this is different.
The person who devotes himself to everyone else's happiness could run himself ragged trying to please and make others happy.
Thus kindness could indirectly kill.

Answer 8

Giving kindness in return to those who are not kind to you kills their enthusiasm to keep being unkind.
I have proven this many times over. The unkind avoid those giving back only kindness.
I think it is because they didn't expect kindness and didn't know how to react to it.

Answer 9

Yes, in a way....you can shower someone with so much kindness, through giving them things, that they themselves become weak and unable to function in any other world other than the kindness bubble you have supplied them. And then through their weakness another comes along and is stronger, that one will take over the weak, one way or another, in this case, killing and mutilating for the sheer pleasure of it.

Answer 10

Such a nice question, though by answering this I probably am wasting time and the earth's energy that could be put to better use by feeding hungry people.