Kindness is defined as the “quality of being friendly, generous, and considerate.” Many people would put egoism at odds with kindness. They expect egoists to be hostile loners who would take advantage of a person at the drop of a hat. However, it isn’t actually beneficial to anyone to be unkind as a rule. Unkindness may be appropriate when a person is bad, but, for the general practice of living in a society, kindness is a great boon. Egoists have to consider other people as anyone else would, since egoists live in a society like anyone else. As kindness is good for other people, it’s good for yourself. Kindness creates a more stable and productive society, which egoists shouldn’t shirk.
To create a stable society, you need kindness. Lying, cheating, and hurting other people creates a society of uncertainty. If any part of a society, e.g. people, was hostile, it would create a more unstable society. Hostility means that you view other people as your enemies, which is contradictory to the purpose of a society, where the people in it are meant to be your allies. It would force you into a double life, where one part is scheming and predatory, while the other is placative to keep up with the appearances of being an ally in society. Only a world where individuals lived on their own separate plot of land and made forays onto other people’s plot of land to steal and murder would make sense in a hostile mindset. The truth is that a society is intimately cooperative; people live in them because being with other people makes their lives better. Kindness expresses a willingness to work with other people and to consider their well-being. It makes it clear that people are working with one another so that each may be better off. Kindness places quality of life at the center of human relations.
Egoists are no different in that they need kindness to create an appropriate quality of life. An egoist must live with other people in a society just like anyone. Living around other people means considering their well-being. Kindness allows egoists to create a setting of helpfulness and reciprocity. An unkind world is one in which an egoist doesn’t get the benefit of others’ consideration and doesn’t get to show their own benevolence towards others. It’s one in which they must be always on guard for the hostility of others. An egoist’s life is less safe and joyful without kindness. Kindness shows benevolence and love between people, which creates a more secure life.
Egoism is about the quality of life of the entity itself, and kindness helps provide that quality of life. By everyone treating each other as allies instead of enemies, kindness creates a more stable and consistent society. The pleasure of kindness can’t be discarded.
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