I sincerely believe deflation does not hurt, except for those in debt. Debt is supposed to be painful, that's the whole point. Many causes of inflation reward indebtedness.
If you had a big, over-due bill, you would be forced to sell assets at your disposal to pay it, even if those assets were mathematically bound to appreciate.
Economies do not want 'kick-starting'. It is absolutely trivial to expand a GDP by debasing the unit in which it is measured, one of many good arguments that it is folly to measure an economy's performance by GDP, especially in isolation.