The question
What trait do you most dislike in other people?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
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Lack of empathy and compassion.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 March 2026 source ↗
People who aren’t kind enough.
Lack of humility, the absence of goodness.
People who abuse their power to subjugate others.
People who barge into a lift instead of standing aside for anyone exiting should be dipped in kerosene and fired into the sun.
I’ll never amount to anything. Who? He was my rival at dance school. It hurt and is something that I’ve always had in the back of my head to defy.
My father because I was 12 when he passed and I blamed him for everything in my parents’ marriage. Now I realise he did the best he could and was just figuring life out like everybody else.
I would like to believe that you reunite with the people you love the most.
Absolutely nothing. It’s a privilege.
As someone who cared boldly about people, stood firmly for what he believed in and lifted others when they needed help.
Building my mum her dream home.
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