How human relationships thrive on kindness, whether in families, schools, workplaces, wherever! Spreading wider, kindness to pets, bobby calves, hens (free-range, please), porkers does something unique and positive for both the owners and their charges. The natural world has an intrinsic value both in itself and for human sustenance, enjoyment and restful calm. Shakespeare’s Lady Macbeth presents that murky alternative most graphically when she worries that Macbeth is ‘‘too full of the milk of human kindness’’, lacking the steely resolve to sweep others aside in his desire to be king. And she saw to it that the milk of human kindness curdled in his being.

Source: Otago Daily Times January 12, 2017 17:19 UTC