Why is humankind so unkind to each other?

Answer 1

Because the human race is suffering inside,
internally, and externally, throughout the entire world!! Look at all the sickness, disease, poverty - well.........over 978, 300
people dying daily from starvation alone; wars (dealth, killings, murders), pain and suffering in the world. This is enough to cause many humans to be so unkind.
Why is there so..... much suffering in the world and what can we, as human beings do to help end the pain and sufferings of humanity ?
The answers were taught over 2,500 years ago.
And the answers are "still" with us today !!
They ARE found within "The Four Noble Truths AND "The Noble Eightfold Path !!!"
Through this Wisdom & Knowledge and through daily practice, these techniques, found in the Four Noble Truths and the Noble Eightfold Path, we - each & every human being,
can help end the Pain AND Suffering in the world, but it must begin within ourselves. And these techniques and principles are still Alive today, given freely to us to study and to practice.
This is the means to end the pain and suffering in the world, beginning with ourselves !! And the result is Real Happiness AND TRUE
PEACE !! And this is what humantiy has always longed for, and will always long for.
This should be the Ultimate Goal of all of
Humanity !!!

Thank You for Your Qustion.

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Answer 2

Mankind or the human race is so unkind to one another, because of the human rat-race, dog eat dog society, that has been created through envy, greed and each persons search for recognition and riches. People are prepared to walk over bodies, which they do anyway, and have no scruples or ethical/moral values, which alot of people have never heard of. It does not even have anything to do with the different races on the planet, because even the individual races cannot even live in peace with one another, and have never been able to!

Where there are people there is competition and the aim of most people today is just to look after themselves no matter what it costs for the others! It is very sad, very bad, but, as always, the personal invoice comes to everyone sooner or later, have no fear, you do not even have to do anything, except be yourself, be kind to your fellow men and observe. I believe in fate, so if you do too, relax, observe, enjoy, have patience and sooner or later the answer will become visible. Just hope that it is within our lifetime

Good luck!

Answer 3

Most unkindness in modern times is no different that it was in more ancient times. The conduct comes from having to be coldly cruel to survive. There was a time when the instincts dominated humans and there were no laws preventing or punishing us for doing something like transfer our conduct onto others vulnerable and unable to protect themselves. Now there are laws against certain forms of unkindness to others even though we haven't evolved totally we have eliminated or reduced many types of unkindness. That doesn't mean that we have produced the noble desire to be kind to others we do so to avoid the consequences not necessarily because we want to be kind. We do so because we need to change behavior so as not to have certain types of behavior manifest in our society. So we sublimate that aspect of our behavior and it exists latent in our unconscious mind only to manifest as a thought but we do not let it expose itself to any outward physical reality due to a law that provides for the consequences too costly otherwise. So far there is no law against thinking unkindly of another even though there is against that unkindness manifesting in society.

Answer 4

We're taught to be. We are taught differences since they day we are born and thrown into school (especially US). Rather finding similarities in one another we define each other through differences. We are given different constructs our whole lives that make us different from other people, and therefore make it harder for us to friend things we don't understand. Nationality is why Esperanto (universal language) never took hold. Or why when we define ourselves in these constructs (white, black, rich, Christian, rocker, etc) it's so hard to break free from them. Mostly we hate what we don't understand, and often no one cares enough to try.

There are different factors that go into this question (which is a good one, and will hopefully merit some self-reflection). A lot of time greed is why a certain person or country will cause conflict with another. Maybe if the world got rid of the significance to paper (money), these group constructs, and decided to learn from different cultures and really try to understand without automatically thinking they were wrong, then we could sort through this hatred.

Answer 5

I think it depends on where you are at. People are generally good, social creatures. Then do something unnatural like build a city. Go somewhere where each individual person for the most part has made themselves up to be useful for just a few things wherein that great support system of society fills in all the needs for their shortcomings and allows them to be grotesquely advanced and specialized for the betterment of all others in thier specific trade persuit. This is what we enjoy, the fruits of society.
But then you also have to realize in built up areas where human traffic is dense, people would not be able to get anything accomplished as they go on about thier business and indeed in some of the bigger cities might take a few weeks just to get from one side of town to the other if we were to stop and be utterly curteous to everyone we meet along the way. I believe you can take my example and superimpose that over city life and realize that the less conversation or courtesy needed to navigate around other human beings, the better for all.
I postulate that the more dense an area is with ANYTHING, yes including human life, the less value that it has. Its simple math, it doesnt spell out our individual intentions or good will, just a dynamic that is. In denser areas like Los Angeles you will see this in action. Whereas a fire engine and ambulence are roaring thier sirens you will be amazed how sluggishly and with such consternation people driving tend to pull over to the right (the only legally acceptable maneuver to begin with) to allow the emergency vehicles to pass. I have seen drivers act in accordance with disdain, intollerance and seemingly annoyed by the inconvenience. It should not matter what one individual thinks, but sometimes and in some cases, such as I presented with the fire engine example, this is where people that are surrounded by so many good things and choices and easy living, and other people, its just too much of a good thing overall.
So there you are standing on the street corner observing the raw irony of an SUV with 'my child was citizen of the month at X school' bumper sticker stocking up the intersection while a fire engine that has been rigth on thier rear for at least a quarter mile is blaring thier horn and yelling out the PA system to get out of the way; and in that moment perhaps it dawns on you. People become desensitized to other people themselves. Become opinionated and thin skinned, spoiled and when it dawns on them this is brazenly apparent there comes the F you Too syndrome. Any and all people are subject to this, as it is...who the F are you? Nothing to do business with me I hope, I still have to get halfway across town, nothing to say so shut up or put up and move on. By the way, its really not my concern that you're gouting blood from the neck, dont make it mine at any rate this is my clean new suit, I have a meeting to attend so I may contribute of myself to society.

Answer 6

competition- everyone wants to be better than the counter person. There's always some nastiness involved unless you love these people. You see this mostly in the workplace and london undergound- evil bunch of unkind and hostile people

Answer 7

Well, it might be on your view, what some people are doing are "unkind" but to the people doing so, it makes perfect sense to them or that they are able to justify and rationalize what they had just done. It could be that they think that what they are thinking is actually for the betterment of society (e.g. because of their intense belief to "purify" the human race, the genocide of more than 2 million Jews by the Nazis is justified. For the Nazis, what they are doing is not wrong and they justified what they did by believing that the other races are "inferior", but for the victims and other outsiders, what they did was wrong). Or because of mirror-image perceptions that fuel conflict e.g. "As the United States and Iraq prepared for war, each repeatedly spoke of each other as "evil." To George W. Bush, Saddam Hussein was a "murderous tyrant" and "madman" who was threatening the civilized world with weapons of mass destruction. To Iraq's gov't., the Bush gov't was a "gang of evil" that "threatens the world with their evil schemes and lusts for Middle Eastern oil" (Zajonc, 2003 as cited by Myers, 2005).

Sometimes, it is simply because we don't perceive any injustice in what we do or in the world, so we just continue in what we are doing.

Or it could be because of prejudice, negative attitude/ prejudgment of a group and its individual members, that is motivated by several reasons: According to the Scapegoat theory (displaced aggression), when the cause of our frustration is intimidating or unknown, we often redirect our hostility. One source of frustration is competition and the Realistic group conflict theory suggests that prejudice arises when groups compete for scarce resources.

Another reason could be feeling superior to others. Since our personal identity is also defined by our social identity (group belongingness identity), we seek pride in our groups. When our group is successful, we feel superior and we make ourselves feel better by identifying more strongly with it.

There are actually a lot of explanation for the inhumanity of humans but to cut it short, perhaps people are thinking along these lines, "There is neither right or wrong; only the thinking of man makes it so."

Answer 8

Someone answered by asking:

"Animal instincts we haven't evolved out of yet?"

Actually we seem to have evolved "into" it.
Human is the only animal ( I think...lol) that will kill one of it's own species because human survival is best achieved on an individual or very small group basis. I suppose this is a by-product of self-awareness.

Answer 9

well for many different reason. we all are different in many good ways but people belive being diff is something bad n they put dat against u. also jelousy, selfishness, pride all seven deadly sins are part of it too. there are many different reasons some that we might not never know n some r just plain n obvious

Answer 10

Ignorance, fear, greed, all that old stuff. All you can do is be responsible for your own behaviour and bring your children up to do the same. Happy New Year.