Dear Humans,

It’s easy to be nice to the people we like. Our friends, our family, people we’ve been around a lot. When we give our time or attention to them, it feels like it costs us nothing at all.

But the world is mostly full of people we don’t know, people we don’t know yet, or people we might not particularly like. And they probably feel the same way about us. 

And this entire undertaking of human civilization depends on our ability to treat those people with respect. Those are the people we have to get along with. Not out of love or friendship, but out of a deeper connection of being fellow human beings in a shared world. Without it we’re doomed.

Sincerely,

Mr. Curt