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To Be Fair Or To Be Nice

To be fair or to be nice Sometimes I stumble, I stumble upon to be fair or to be nice To be fair, might mean to be not nice To be fair means to pass unfavorable judgement to someone That someone you might like very much. To be fair or to be nice? To be nice might mean to be unjust. To be fair or to be nice? To be fair might mean giving someone the chance. That someone might be your competition. To be fair or to be nice? To be nice means to be fair, but to be fair costs you To be fair or to be nice? To be fair means everyone has a say. Not everyone has a good say. To be nice might be saying anything that they want to hear, even without the associated action. That has future impacts To be fair or to be nice? To be fair means strength, to be fair means accountability, to be fair means challenge To be fair means responsibility. To be fair is not easy Choose to be fair. To be nice is a shortcut that goes nowhere. Just do not stumble like me , be fair!

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Date: 9/15/2020 5:52:00 AM
AH, fairness...the ability to disagree with out being disagreeable. Nice said. We often forget that the statement "if you can't say something nice then say nothing at all" is a quote from the mother of Flower the baby skunk in the Disney movie BAMBI....
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