Why We Don't Really Want to be Nice

Being ‘nice’ sounds a bit eerie and strange. It shouldn’t really.

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“Setting out to try to become a nicer person sounds like a deeply colourless and dispiriting ambition. In theory, we love niceness of course, but in practice, there appears to be something embarrassingly anodyne, meek, tedious and even sexless about the concept. A nice person sounds like something we would try to be only once every other more arduous and more rewarding alternative had failed...”

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