# So what was your simple act of kindness today?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [February 14, 2019, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-was-your-simple-act-of-kindness-today/829540 "2019-02-14T15:50:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2019, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-was-your-simple-act-of-kindness-today/829540/46 "2019-02-16T23:53:56Z")

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> [@Songs you LIKE to hear over...and over...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-like-to-hear-over-and-over/7547/9):
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> Hell, smiling at your waitress is kind, covering your mouth when you cough is kind, flushing the toilet is kind… Yes, these things are all expected norms in a polite society, but to be polite is to also be kind.

If you go around not smiling, coughing everywhere, not flushing the toilet and refusing to make change then everyone is going to think you’re an annoying ass. Living within a society, it is merely rational self interest not to do that. That’s why they’re calle expected norms.

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