It is also characteristic of the great-souled man never to ask help from others, or only with reluctance, but to render aid willingly; and to be haughty towards men of position and fortune, but courteous towards those of moderate station, because it is difficult and distinguished to be superior to the great, but easy to outdo the lowly, and to adopt a high manner with the former is not ill-bred, but it is vulgar to lord it over humble people: it is like putting forth one’s strength against the weak.
– Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
It’s simple: Treat people how they treat you.
This is something that took me a long while to learn. It works on both men and women. When it comes to dealing with people, treat them how they treat you.
- If someone is friendly to you, be friendly to them.
- If someone is unfriendly to you, be unfriendly to them.
- If someone is nice and kind to you, be nice and kind to them.
- If someone is an asshole towards you, be an asshole to them.
This applies to your general demeanor and doesn’t mean you don’t need to use your brain.
People can be nice to you because they’re trying to get something out of you so you need to be smart enough to identify fake friends from real friends.
Likewise, one off cases of unfriendliness can be attributed to a bad mood or something going on in that person’s life on that particular day.
In general, if you sense a trend of hostility and disrespect from a person, you have to be willing to dish it back to them, or at the very least distance yourself from them. In no world should you have friends who disrespect you.
When you are unkind to kind people, you lower your character and values. You are not proving your strength but showing your lack of manners and quality.
When you are good to assholes, you lower your respect and honor. You are not a “good person”, merely weak and submissive. You invite more such behaviour because people now consider you a pushover.
Furthermore, treat people how they treat you is one of the rare pieces of social advice that applies to dealing with both men and women.
If you are nice to a bitchy woman, she will consider you a beta male and will disrespect you even more. If you are unfriendly to a nice woman, you are simply lowering your own stature and values.
“Compassionate” submissiveness does not work
The typical “compassionate” leftist advice about treating the unkind with kindness is wrong. It serves your enemies, not you.
The leftists tell you to be a weak fag while at the same time they bow to strength and violence (notice how they never criticize radical Islam).
Every year PETA lines up to protest against Hindu festivals but doesn’t do protests against Muslims who kill millions of animals on Eid. They tried once and the Muslims beat them black and blue.
Hindus are not violent so they are easy to criticize, protest against, ridicule, etc. Basically, all the wolves come for you if you are an easy target.
If you treat your haters and detractors with kindness, it doesn’t “change their mind”. It only makes them more violent and bloodthirsty because they can harm you while receiving no damage in return.
At some level, everything comes down to jungle law. The predator always prefers a prey that can’t fight back, and will only try to hunt something that might cause it damage if it’s starving.
Mohandas Gandhi, agent of the British, also gives you some advice that doesn’t work:
In the meantime, here’s some real advice from you from the Ramayana:
One advice helps you win and be in control of your destiny. The other asks you to die to your attackers like a pussy.
You decide.
Your man,
Harsh Strongman
