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Kindness when hate is involved shows great strength. Being able to take a step back and present a measured kindness response takes a lot of strength. Responding to hatred with more hate is a sing of weakness. It’s the easy response. I’ve continued to work on this throughout my life. Being a gamer I see hate in most games. People get very upset when they don’t win or are shown to be the lesser player. I play a lot of first person shooters and I recognize the irony of responding with hate in a game that almost feeds off it. It’s something I enjoy though and it’s more about the competition than the actually shooting of guns. Some people will take that competitiveness to chat or potentially voice if they’re on your team. It’s taken a while not to respond with more hate and instead present indifference or even kindness.