On Kindness, by Adam Phillips, the author says, "Our resistance to kindness is our resistance to encountering what kindness meets in us, and what we meet in other people by being kind to them." what do you think he's saying, and what might be some reasons for us to actually resist kindness? Do you think that our tendency towards kindness is innate and natural, and that the aggression and violence in the world today is the result of a gradual loss of these qualities?