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Is a kind person born that way, or cultivated?

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westcoasttrav
Uploaded on 02/01/2008

We all know that extremely happy and kind person that can't say a bad word... as well as that pissy and grumpy pain in the rear that grumbles at everyone and everything.

My questions is this: where they born that way or is that the result of lifes work?

I'm a happy and kind person in general, and I think I've been this way most of my life.  Not because of religion or upbrining (my Mom & Dad are pretty grumpy peple), but because I've always just had that urge in life.

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Re: Is a kind person born that way, or cultivated?
Interesting .I have read somewhere that what is at work behind kindness is the "empathy neurons" which seem to be experiencing suffereing in others as though it is theirs. I mean whenever a kind man sees suffering ,something in him produces a similar kind of suffering in sympathy or rather in "empathy".Neurologists say that altruism is a natural born tendency ,not a cultivated one. The very word "kindness" implies identification with  persons of the same "kind "
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