[vincent-toups]

I'm not sure that I buy you're assertion that kindness is either necessarily or sufficiently described by a lack of aggression per se.

Kindness is maybe better described by keeping the the inner life of your fellow beings in the forefront of your mind and treating them with respect relative to that inner life and your own hopefully well though out ethical frame. I can certainly see how that would often limit the amount of aggression you would employ but I see that as a secondary effect.