Do humans have the capacity?

Question

To look past their prejudice ways and evolve into a selfless race? What can we do to try to better ourselves for the benefit of humankind?

Answer 1

Maybe if we can stop judging and stop being so hyper critical.

love and blessings Don

Answer 2

I don't think we will ever turn into a selfless race without a utopian society and I don't believe that is a good thing. There are always those people who will take what they want and not care who gets hurt and that will never change. On another note, I don't think anyone on earth is truly selfless. All people go for what they want, and wanting to help others because it makes you feel like you've done a good thing is not selfless.
To make ourselves better we must accept our differences and be kind a courteous and then encourage the next generation to do so too. This way the world will become a better and better place with each generation.

Answer 3

The strength and ability, the capacity, is within us all. The problem is, the ones we choose to lead us are quite deficient in selflessness. They formulate grandiose plans and use religion and nationality and sexual preference as tools to put these plans into motion. (Wars, famines, financial depressions, etc). They manipulate the populace with entertainments, brainwashing, and education. Things will not change until the sheeple,,, people, wake up and become aware. Sadly ours is a world geared to selfishness and this might not happen for some time. Selflessness is not a natural human trait on the whole.

Until the day when the majority have their eyes open, all any individual can do is take personal responsibility for their own evolution and behavours and hope that eventually enough people begin to change and these politicians are elected out of office. Either that, or run for office themselves and pray for a miracle!

One of the best things we can do is to visit other cultures, expand our awareness of how other folks live. You will see that a "Tide" add on tv in India is the same, same tones everything, as in the west, only the language and colour of skin differ. So what if mother is draped in a gorgeous sari instead of jeans and a t? People are all people and we need to embrace the differences, not set those differences up as walls to divide or promote discontent.

We all live and die, we all want to live fulfilling contented lives.

So this would be a slow revolution if we got there one by one by one. But it would be progress!

Answer 4

It's an interesting question because you have two answers. Yes we have the capacity indavidually to look past prejudice and look at the personality, not race or class etc. If we all learned indavidually we could learn to defeat prejudice that clouds so many people's judgement.

You also have a no answer, due to the fact as a whole, as a society you won't have that. Humans never want to be wrong in front of others, and hold their opinions close no matter what others think. If you have a racist guy in Georgia, I highly doubt one person will change his mind. He must learn by himself. If we all changed socially maybe he would too.

We just need to get to know people before judging them, yet we don't want to do that. We stereotype and generalize everything, so it is almost impossible to do this. That's why their are two answers: it's literally impossible because we know it won't happen, yet we do have the capacity too, we just don't take the chance! Crazy huh lol

Answer 5

I believe prejudice is a symptom and unless we treat the underlying cause we cannot better ourselves. We all like to differentiate ourselves to acknowledge our own identities and for that differentiation, we hang on to unproved, hypocritical concepts or prejudices and thus we discriminate. We should use intelligent discernment and not invalid discrimination.
Yes we do have the capacity but I think many people are too
self righteous and uptight and cannot stand the fact that the ideas they hold have no base and are wrong and should change.

Answer 6

Yes everyone has the capacity I think. Though it goes against our habits and conditioning. The more people become aware the more awareness spreads. The misconception is that selfishness leads to happiness when in fact it is not the case and selflessness actually does. With the influence of people who are examples of selflessness there is a lot of potential for many to be changed and inspired.

Answer 7

humans do have capacity...that may correspond to any aspect .but they usually r much bothered about their own profit underlying in that task rather than a combined "humankind sort of benefit" .To days world has not much time to think about the public but instead think of being a special gem in the ordinary public.Capacity within a human is not constrained under any bounds...the present people are always into representing their skills in the best manner possible..u need to know Ur capacity when u know Urself better it fetches u with lot of success..capacity is nothing but polishing ur skills till they actually glitter as gems.

Answer 8

i believe we have the capacity to do so..we were born with love in our hearts..if we have the capacity to love our parents, our partners, our children and our friends, why can't we have the same love and respect for each and everyone of us?? it can happen only if we are able to look beyond our different religions, race, skin colors, ethnic backgrounds, genders, intelligence, education levels, wealth, political views, social circles and a view other little things that we might not realize it..those are the places where almost every case involving discrimination starts..if we can look beyond all that then we know we are on the right track..u and me all of us we are all just human beings..we have our differences but at the end of the day we are just humans..i must admit it sounds impossible to look beyond all that and treat everyone we meet equally..but it can happen..we all know it can happen..we just have to make it happen..

Answer 9

The human sepecie is not alturistic. It is contrary to their survival. Only if every man, woman. and child have more than they can possibly use of everything, will such a thing possibly come to be. But even then, I doubt it. Some people are plain selfish. Their goal is to have everything for themselves.

Answer 10

We need to stop being judgemental about everyone and start looking at other races as people. There are good and bad in every race, everywhere. We need to start respecting others and stop believing that we are better than others.

Answer 11

Some of the people some of the time, but when it comes down to it, it is about who has the toys, who wants the toys and what will be done for toys to change hands.


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