Tearing people down or building them up? As an American what do you PREFER to do? Do you?

As a human being, build them up. Yes.

I don't know anyone that
Tears people down thankfully,
But for sharing with people
That which would make them
Healthy Happy and Free...
Is that building them up?
...If the depth of their potentiality is asleep and if I could awaken them to
Their own potentiality, would that be building them up?
...definitely prefer a build up instead
of a tear down of people, but not a buildup of pompous ego gratification.

Thank you for your reply BSurf! :)

Not personally  Baba. But you do know of those who do. Some Answermuggers certainly tear at one another. All partisan politicians. Which is why we are in the state we're in. I wonder why politics attracts tearer downers and not builder uppers?