This little post is from an article on the Bored Panda website.

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I am sharing it here because it is both a charming and heartwarming story. But it also hurts a little inside to think that people are, indeed, capable of such compassion for a small, relatively short-loved animal and yet our current government administration is celebrating, encouraging and even legally mandating, cruelty to our fellow human beings.

I both love and despair for humanity and I'm hoping that there are others out there who resonate with my conflicted emotions. In an effort to end on a positive note, I will include a link to the article (listicle, really) over at Bored Panda.

"Faith in Humanity Restored"

[flying_wahini]

1. Yes, kindness has been discouraged in T's admin x2 but

I think Joe B brought it back. I think people are dying to connect with each other these days.

[Clouds Passing]

2. The more dismal a few behave, the more kindness expands. Kindness wins!

[Walleye]

3. So I guess it wasn't a "illegal goldfish" from Venezuela or something

Gold didn’t fit their racial profiling

[LuvLoogie]

6. Kinda with you there.

Their instincts were triggered by the commonality of having a pet, perhaps. Yes it's kindness, opportunity toward a random stranger and an unthreatening goldfish. The hope of the OP is for the capacity to be kind in the moment as a reflexive, default action/motive. That this would be the norm and not the brutality borne of hate, fear, and greed.

[Walleye]

7. I believe the kindness is still in us somewhere, but it is being drowned out by some loud rude voices

[Nittersing]

4. I love this story

I lived in NYC for four years and could easily picture this happening.

[twodogsbarking]

5. I am not be smart but I know smart when I see it.

“It's a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.”
― Aldous Huxley

[lame54]

8. Everybody on the train sprung into action...

And Trump stood there staring into space

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9. No doubt that the goldfish showed a more emotional affect than Trump would.

Hell, there could have been a second goldfish in another bag and it would have shown more curiosity about a fellow goldfish struggling to breathe than Trump showed about a fellow human being collapsing directly behind him.