once people start treating another human being as an "it" and ignore their feelings, opnions, ways of being and dont respect them as human beings anymore by labeling them or objectifying them then u get evil that is what evil is.. senseless cruelty but denying a persons right to think and feel and be what they want and to remember they are a human being...
power goes to peoples heads..
this happens all the time and it sucks for example soldiers see other soldiers not as human beings anymore but as something to extinguish, people who are put in nursing homes and treated like crap, people who are in mental hospitals are are subjected to treatment (no-one is actually not in control of their own minds to think otherwise is to turn the person into a "it"), people who beat up their children, human trafickers, people who are racist turn the other person into an it worthy of crap just cz they are of a different colour and bcz they like to feel superior, men who rape etc.
2006-06-07 02:31:51 · 7 answers · asked by lazydazy 4 in Social Science ➔ Sociology
usually these people are to close minded to accept anyone not in their range of normal or what they should be to fit in with society
2006-06-07 02:36:11 · answer #1 · answered by cr@ZY_$3XY_c00l 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
what a pithy answer that.
You have put a lot of thought into this question. You still have high ideals and also are not yet jaded by life. Much of the "objectifying" you describe is the generalization that occurs when people have limited imagination and an innate inability to empathize. They simply cannot or will not walk that mile in the other person's shoes. Yet that same person will be the first to squawk, moan and whine if they themselves don't receive the empathy and understanding they deny to others.
Many people are spiritually bereft, hollow vessels. They live moment to moment, focussed only on themselves, their own instant gratification and refuse or are incapable of thinking about tomorrow. So they isolate themselves from humanity in general.
I don't really know for sure why this is so. It has been my opinion that it has to do with spiritual enlightenment. Whatever your personal belief system is, mine happens to be Christianity, if you have faith in a higher power, if you believe that you will answer to that higher power some day, perhaps that brings you out of yourself and gives you the awareness that you don't exist in a vacuum.
It works for me.
It could be that there are simply too many of us on this planet. 6.5 billion and growing. Studies of rats in crowded environments have proved that this normally well-socialized animal will turn on its own kind, killing each other and even killing and eating its young when living conditions are too overcrowded.
Maybe with so many of us, it is simply an impossibility to feel each other's joys and pain, leaving only the objectifying.
Depressing thought.
2006-06-07 09:34:46 · answer #2 · answered by desperatehw 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When you objectify people, you have the upper hand to do whatever you want, whenever you want. Another word is "pseudospeciation" which dejects a certain group of people to sub-human levels in the eyes of another group of people. It makes it ok and easier to commit genocide if you think the other group isn't even human.
2006-06-07 09:35:47 · answer #3 · answered by jaike 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because we are only human. Humans are selfish. Humans do not adapt. We make the world around them adapt to us.
2006-06-07 09:35:14 · answer #4 · answered by Q~T 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
And doesn't it seem to be getting worse all the time? No respect for ourselves or anyone else, we live in a sad, sad world..
2006-06-07 12:04:14 · answer #5 · answered by chulita 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you are totally high on something, aren't you?
if you are so interested in saving the world, get off your lazzy a.ss, stop writing dumb a.ss questions on yahoo and go out and make a difference. geez!!
2006-06-07 09:35:42 · answer #6 · answered by sungirlie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
people suck
2006-06-07 09:33:43 · answer #7 · answered by infidel 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋