How Kind vs. Just Do You Want to Be? 11 questions to help you decide

We tend to behave on auto-pilot. It may be helpful to step back and evaluate our behavior.. Previous installments in this series asked you to consider how ambitious you want to be, how honest, and whether to raise or lower your expectations of yourself and others. Here we turn to where you are and would like to be on the kindness vs. justice continuum.

My Psychology Today article today asks you 11 questions to help you decide.

The Case for Justice Over Mercy

We're in an era that seems to value mercy over justice: Grade inflation, bankruptcy laws, reduced sentences, the media's replacing "hoodlums" with "under-served," even some  psychologists blaming bad behavior largely on externalities.

Mercy feels good and is consistent with religion's valuing of forgiveness but does it yield a net good?  In my PsychologyToday.com article today, I make the argument that it doesn't.