"That's not nice".

Someone I am acquainted with was trying to explain why they don't like someone. They said "He's a really nice guy and everything..."

But here's the thing.

"Nice" is usually, on some level, a euphemism with "OK with the world as it is".

In other words, they may be "nice" but they aren't GOOD.

Because NO FUCKING DECENT HUMAN BEING could look around at this shit and what we're doing to ourselves and everyone else without wanting to cleanse it with fire. That doesn't mean lacking sympathy or kindness or human decency. It means understanding that nice people have the wrong priorities. Nice people support genocide and war and poverty and cruelty by default, and that's the worst part, because they don't even have the decency to be malicious. They're banal, and that is perhaps a worse evil than malice.

Rather than being nice, try being good. It's a lot harder, and damn if you might not find that it's almost impossible to do in a world where our shoes are made by child slaves overseas, but it's worth a shot.