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Evelyn Sommers

Tyranny of Niceness

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    Your niceness grates against your true feelings and thoughts, causing an ongoing internal friction
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    avoid telling people, especially authority figures, that they have offended you or that you disagree with their opinions or suggestions.
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    order to appease others you do things you either regret or simply wish you had not done that you cannot bring yourself to undo
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    conform to styles of dress and furnish your home according to the advice of self-proclaimed experts or your neighbours rather than according to your own values, tastes, and financial capabilities.
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    contradictions in your interactions with people, expressed in the interests of being nice
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    clients struggle to honour their own needs and desires rather than sell out in order to be or say or do what they believe people want of them.
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    The contradictions of niceness are so imbued in our culture that we have clichés to describe them: “nice guys finish last,” “no more Mr. Nice Guy,” and “too darned nice.
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    maybe you have been jilted by someone you thought was the nicest person you’d ever met, someone you loved
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    Alfonso Caruana, a drug lord with links to the mafia. He was one of the world’s most wanted men, yet neighbours knew him as a family man living a quiet life with his wife and children in the suburbs
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    They lived in a nice community made up of nice people living in well-kept homes, people who went to church on Sundays and attended their children’s little league baseball games, whose anti-social behaviour went no further than an occasional traffic ticket. People move to places like Littleton to avoid acts of violence such as these youths committed.
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