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If you have to be right or be kind, choose kindness and you'll always be right!
When dealing with others, humans find themselves in situations where they are pushed to choose between being right and kind. They must make a decision that will change the course of their life; this problem is not just theoretical but real for all people.
When you look at the world, it is not hard to see where this dilemma comes from. People are inherently selfish and competitive; they care more about being right than being kind.
If you are a child and someone steals your toy, you want to be right; you will fight for it if necessary. The person who has stolen the toy is also looking to be right. He or she wants to prove that he or she can get away with stealing.
As a child, you learn that being right is more important than being kind. How many times have we heard the phrase 'sticks and stones may break my bones but words can never hurt me.'?
The fact that words can hurt us is an indication of how much we value being right. But what if I told you that the phrase 'sticks and stones may break my bones but words can never hurt me' does not exist? At a certain point in our development, children begin to understand that words do indeed cause pain.
The idea that we should not be affected by words and accusations has a very interesting history. It is an idea that was developed in the 18th century to strengthen political arguments. The argument went like this: if people are not allowed to say something bad about you, then they cannot defend themselves from it.