Wow--I left for a couple days, and look how popular this thread got. [img]smilies/eek.gif[/img]
Lady Elbereth, I really liked your story. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]
And now for my two cents:
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The ripple effect. Someone has to start it.
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And someone has to keep it going, too. If one person starts by smiling at a stranger, then that stranger will probably feel better and keep passing on the good deed--but there's always the people who couldn't really care less, and who don't think that it's really worth doing anything to help. I think that to really change things, you would need a lot of people who were determined to keep doing good no matter how other people acted--and hopefully they would reach enough people that the ripple would spread.