...is it your position that kindness is one of the virtues and so one is to pursue kindness along with other virtues?
I've already stated kindness to be a virtue, and after your insistence, I have treated it as the only relevant virtue here in our discussion with out further objection.
But as far as the expectation that one "is to pursue kindness along with other virtues," that would depend on what is meant by "pursue," and under what criteria such a expectation is raised. Virtues such as honesty, fairness, consistency, are to be expected , requiring universal pursuit and are not ever deserving of thankful recognition. Where as virtues such as kindness, bravery, sympathy, are not to be expected, do not require universal pursuit, and thereby are always deserving of thankful recognition.
Very good. I agree. Do you consider this view of kindness to be a Randian position, a logical expansion of the Randian position done by you, or would you say that it contradicts the Randian position?
You realize that I need to reconcile your statement with Rand's celebration of greed and view on altruism as another form of greed.