I think I actually agree with all of that. Like you said in the last paragraph, I usually bring up kindness-among-humans in the context of “existence proof that this is possible”, not making a prevalence claim.
Semi-related: I once asked a chatbot for historical counterexamples to “absolute power corrupts absolutely” and it suggested Marcus Aurelius, Ashoka the Great, Cincinnatus, Atatürk, LKY, and Nelson Mandela. (IIRC, Gemini said that Mandela never had absolute power but probably could have maneuvered into it if he had tried.) I really don’t know much about any of these people. Maybe I’ll read some biographies at some point, but that would be very low on my priority list.
I think I actually agree with all of that. Like you said in the last paragraph, I usually bring up kindness-among-humans in the context of “existence proof that this is possible”, not making a prevalence claim.
Semi-related: I once asked a chatbot for historical counterexamples to “absolute power corrupts absolutely” and it suggested Marcus Aurelius, Ashoka the Great, Cincinnatus, Atatürk, LKY, and Nelson Mandela. (IIRC, Gemini said that Mandela never had absolute power but probably could have maneuvered into it if he had tried.) I really don’t know much about any of these people. Maybe I’ll read some biographies at some point, but that would be very low on my priority list.