Kindness consents very readily to the removal of its object

C. S. Lewis
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Kindness consents very readily to the removal of its object – we have all met people whose kindness to animals is constantly leading them to kill animals lest they should suffer. Kindness, merely as such, cares not whether its object becomes good or bad, provided only that it escapes suffering. ✨ C.S. Lewis (1996). Joyful Christian, p.38, Simon and Schuster
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