You Can Have Some

It would be a terrible infection,
A proper pandemic, a plague, kindness,
If it spread to every helpless person,
So that no one could ever not be kind.

Or would it, now? Is anyone certain
Of what constitutes the truest kindness
In every encountered situation?
Would all the witnesses kindly agree?

Maybe someone infected with kindness,
True kindness, would answer to the dictates
Of kindness without really knowing why.
The sick don’t need to ponder when to cough.

Are you sure kindness would lower fitness?
There’s so much evolution’s not yet tried.