Why do people have to be so cruel and mean to each other?

Question

I am not a 'little girl'.

Answer 1

Some people have walls or fronts to avoid contact or to not let anyone get too close to them due to some previous issues...this method is a matter of defense to some and even downright offensive to others !!

Answer 2

I think its the way they were brought up (some people have been taught to be haters) or they are insecure with empty, meaningless lives. Either way, being cruel and mean or just hating in general is not a healthy way to live your life. Unfortunately, people do pass these views on to their kids.

Answer 3

Because people in general are as*holes. Usually if you give someone an opportunity to hurt you, they will. Normally this is a lack of maturity or perhaps the bully factor or someone that just wants to get even for something even if you had nothing to do with it. You may need to toughen up a bit but don't be so cynical that everyone else ends up not liking you.

Answer 4

People don't have to be cruel and mean to one another. They decide to be cruel and mean to boost their own self-esteem. People who are cruel usually have a reason, and it usually involves an inner conflict within themselves. People shouldn't be mean, but that's how some of them feel they need to be to get by.

Answer 5

Little girl,just because you chose to take offense at what others say or do doesn't mean they are being intentionally mean to each other. Go to war with a culture that sees youth as the enemy and see what mean really is. If you survive you will never accuse others who may hurt your feelings of being mean again because people who are mean get pleasure from the action. Simple truth.

Answer 6

Are they being cruel &/ mean?
I am often accused of being mean. I'm the one who'll quietly take you aside (into the restroom if possible) & tell you that your skirt hem is tucked up inside your panytyhose & your butt is showing. I'm on e of those who can't stand to hear a severly obese guy talking about his time in 'Nam w/ the Green Berret. (I was Ground Mobile Forces & I've known several Special Forces types. There's no way those guys w/ ever be overweight. Even in a wheelchair... they're working out & staying fit.) When they start up I just laugh & beg off the conversation. I don't feed their egos, so they call me mean.
I've worked 3 jobs & been the sole support of 4 kids, I've picked up pennies off the street to help me feed them. I dno't just listen to BS aobu thow badly treated someone is because they can't get big bucks straight after graduating high school w/ straight D's. So, they call me mean.
I'm financialy secure now, because I've worked very hard my whole life & scrimped & saved. So, I just don't listen to winey little twerps. I tell them to get off their a$$ & get to work. So, I'm often called mean.
But, cruel & mean have differnt meanings. Cruel is just what you think of it as. Mean is base, or low. As in a person of mean status is a person of low status.

Answer 7

Insecurity, intolerance, ignorance, fear all play a role in people being cruel and mean to each other.

Answer 8

People tend to use nastiness as a way of making themselves feel better. Some people cannot fathom having self worth unless someone is less than them.

Answer 9

I hate people who are unnecessarily cruel, but some people really have deep-seated issues and like to see other people suffer as much as they feel they have. Sad but true....

Answer 10

Forget about people, think about you.As long as you are good and nice to others, you can inspire other people.So that we all together can make good world to live in.If we as people forget and keep blaming to other people nothing will be changed, it just would be a waste of time
My point you, yourself can be good to change others.you can make a difference