"We are human beings, not human doings".
Thinking along these lines, and taking kindness to involve a
recognition of the human- (or living-)beingness of another, I might
attempt to argue that technology can be supple[0], but only
individuals[1] could be kind to each other ... or is this just a
luddite position?
-Dave
[0] often preferable to its default of being more rigid than the
systems it replaces
[1] as opposed to technologies (not to groups): it may well be that
uncanny valley thing, but in fact, I prefer dealing with technologies
that make little to no attempt to model me
