The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #62048   Message #1001234
Posted By: mack/misophist
13-Aug-03 - 10:51 AM
Thread Name: BS: Kindness of strangers - lasting effects
Subject: RE: BS: Kindness of strangers - lasting effects
I think this thread is based on a mistaken idea. Random acts of kindness that have major effects are vanishingly rare, and perhaps they ought to be. If that sort of thing were common we'd all come to rely on it. That would be very bad indeed. Shouldn't we, instead, try to scatter as many minor acts of kindness as we conveniently can? This might be a case where quantity is better than quality.