Voted up.

You actually expressed what's wrong with my idea, and I'm going to have to think about it some more. It doesn't really work as is (it's a bit circular.) I have trouble understanding the mindset of what I perceive as "anti-nice" even when I see it in my family and closest friends, so it's difficult for me to present it in a more positive light.

I don't think it's fundamentally political, really, because before I ever heard of politics, when I was a child, I was relentlessly in favor of happy endings for everyone. Whereas another child in my elementary school relentlessly rewrote stories so that the characters would suffer more, spent more time drawing the bad guys, and so on. It was some kind of temperamental difference between us that showed up by the time we were four years old.