What happened to being nice?

What happened to being nice?
I try to be nice as long as others try as well. I will stop talking to those who want to start the nonsense.

I think it has a lot to do with people falling into these very clear categories of 'fans/followers' and 'haters' - and being one probably means you're also the other by default because you hate on people who you perceive to attack the person you're following - but that's the thing. We've stopped seeing each other as people, people who we actually want to impress with our wit and intelligence, people with feelings who'll be hurt by what we say, etc. Even the people we follow/fan over aren't like real people to us.

It beats the h3ll out of me, wheelin. It's so easy, and so weak, to be an arse, and vent one's hostilities on another, who has nothing whatsoever to do with the cause of said hostilities.

Well, so much for a reasonable discussion on being nice. Somehow I had a feeling that there would be someone who would get their knickers in a twist.....
Two seem to be at odds about who is a liar and with the back and forth I doubt that there will be a meeting of the minds. It's childish. It's ridiculous.
You did pose a good question. What happened to being nice?

I think the problems lies in the fact that so few people can make an intelligent and reasoned argument for their case nowadays and the people that don't agree can't articulate why they don't in a reasonable manner so they insult instead.

I understand what you are getting at because I was brought up to have manners and be polite, but also to listen to the other side, but that never stopped me from being opinionated. I don't have to agree with the subject in hand, I just don't feel the need to insult people to get my point across, when I don't.

I so miss real, in-depth intelligent discussions about all sorts of topics with people in today's world because they are so rare nowadays.

I blame a lot of it on education which has declined rapidly for decades and doesn't seem to include any rational critical thinking whatsoever, on social media like Twitter, which only give you 140 characters to have an opinion, to some extent political correctness, which has lost us the ability to criticize what we don't agree with for fear of being labelled a something 'ist' or 'phobe' and on society itself that has allowed itself to slide so far down that it seeks quantity over quality.

If you cannot reply to someone you don't agree with without insult them shame on you. Likewise if you cannot get your point across without doing the same, shame on you also.

It really takes no effort at all to be nice or polite and I found that in a lot of cases, it actually is the best defense against someone you don't agree with, because it winds them up no end that you do not sink to their level.

I feel you. I actually broke down yesterday and cried for three hours after someone disliked my youtube video :(