The unimportance of being nice.

I think decent and nice are different things. Decency is a deeper thing and comes from within, a moral code and thinking things through critically taking a view on things without arrogance or lazy dogmatism. Niceness can come from following protocol, rules, with little of ones values being involved. An arms trader can be personally nice and polite to be with, may even follow the motions of his/her religion. I would take issue though if he/she was described as decent. So simple niceness can be misleading, I think the article brings that out. So in my view "nice" doesn't tell you much about anyone. Niceness without decency is a symptom of weakness and I find these people can be dangerous. Cos they will do anything to get approval, be it following orders to torture captives to gain intelligence or simply playing up to the vanity of others for acceptance and personal gain. Nice is only really nice when it comes from a deeper source a sense of right that tries to be true in isolation from ego and desire. Aaaaannnddd reeeeellaaaaxxxx.

This annoying article kind of says the same thing in a bitchy way:

http://www.heartless-bitches.com/rants/niceguys/niceguys.shtml