>>54007723It is to show it to people who don't deserve it.
>muh 'everyone deserves it'They do not. The refusal to punish someone who deserves it is just enabling. Also, showing kindness to the cruel people only cheapens the value of kindness to the kind.
Nietszche had a good abstract in Also Sprach Zarathustra which basically said kindness shown simply because one lacks the backbone to be cruel isn't kindness at all.
Basically, 'strength' is good judgement. Being needlessly cruel and needlessly kind are both weakness. Strength means showing cruelty to the cruel and kindness to the kind.