This is a serious question.. So don't open if your going to be immature?

Question

In your opinion give me why you think most people care so much about others peoples lives more than theirs or of their family??? Why do people prejudge, discriminate and care so much about differences and what is your point of view on this problem. I'm looking for serious opinions. Type all you want. I'm writing a paper and would really appreciate your opinions. I won't cheat by using your opinions I just really want to prove a point!

Officer Karma its ok if you wanted to be immature i knew someone would be so curious and or tempted to do something like you did and no i'm not going to prejudge you. Its what you wanted to do. I would have loved to have your opinion though.

Answer 1

I think that it comes down to a lot of different reasons, but most of all ignorance. The more I learn the more I realize that you absolutely cannot judge other people. Yet, sometimes even when I am trying to be the least judmental that I can be, I realize that I may have preconceived notions about a person, possibly due to ideas that are instilled upon us by society. Also, I think that religion can play a big part as well. My own parents judge me because I am no longer part of the religion in which they raised me. They love me, but I know that in a way they are judging me. People are oftentimes also afraid of others that are different from them. They may not understand a person who is different and they're first reaction to this is to prejudge or possibly even discriminate. I think the best way to overcome this is to learn more and associate more with other people who are different from you. You begin to realize how much you can learn from other people, and that you can actually become a better person yourself from learning about another. So many people have gone through things in their past of which others have no idea. They may act in a certain way, but it may be bacause of these things that they have had to go through. We all have to learn to not be so quick to judge but to give others the benefit of the doubt.

Answer 2

Question: "Why do most people care so much about other peoples lives more than their own or family"?
Answer: Maybe their family life is not that good and there is not much love in it so they go out to get release etc.

Question: Prejudge, discriminate.
Answer: This is a hard one ... so not really answering it properly. Here in NZ we have people living here from all over the world. Africans, Japanese, Chinese, Maori, Dutch. We all get along very well.
We don't discriminate over here. If a Company puts an ad in the paper for .. say a secretary .. they are not allowed to put an age in the ad, nor black/white etc. It's illegal.
Hope I helped out somewhere here.

Answer 3

I think it's a couple of things. First, sometimes it's easier to point out others' problems than deal with your own. Also, life experiences contribute to prejudices. For example, when I lived in an area with mostly middle class to upper class families I had virtually no problems with minorities. However, now that I live in an area with a dramatic mix of social classes so close to one another, I have developed more prejudices. There are lots of people here (where I live) who think they are middle class yet they are on welfare, live in section-8 housing, can't speak english, etc. If someone fits into ANY or ALL of those categories they are NOT middle class. Also, since I've lived where I am, I have been threatened by numerous amounts of black people and it almost seems as if they do it because I'm white. They also used reverse descrimination and thought it was ok. So I now have a prejudice against certain types of black people (lower class). However, I am by no means racist. To be racist you have to think your race is better than another, which I don't think at all. I just get nervous around ghetto looking characters..and that goes for people of any color. I have many friends of all races and cultures and I like it that way. I mainly think, in my case at least, that it's a class thing..not a color thing. I don't like white trash, black trash, hispanic trash..etc. Hope this helps.

Answer 4

I don't think MOST people care.. for/about ...other people/families MORE Than their own!.
I think prejudice/discrimination.is not born in us ,but is a LEARNED/TAUGHT thing by family/society.
I think that ALL people are noisy to some degree.I believe that being noisy leads to people seeing differences, and then gossiping about those differences..
It is not so much that we CARE about differences as that it is an easy topic to argue about ....which makes being different a sought after thing to be.
I believe that if the press/noisy people,would just be quiet and not Broadcast their OWN OPINIONS this would not be such a HIGHLIGHTED topic of discussion
My hope and thoughts would be that all people and their differences would pull together as one/one nation and live in peace forever.
Do not teach our young that differences are bad but a good variety of differences should induce learning about each other and excepting that we ALL couldn't be the same.Anyone who is considered different would be able to go anywhere without fear

Answer 5

You know some people are so caring they give out what they have and left with nothing.These are people society call generous.They put themselves in other peoples shoes equate everybody as themselves.To them material wealth is nothing.They invest in charities which make them happy.To them discrimination,prejudice and selfishness does not exist.To them world is one big family.They see no race,class or creed in society they live in.These people never keep anything for themselves.most of their wealth goes to charitable organizations.They die poor in material wealth but in spiritual wealth they are rich.Think of Mother Teresa of Calcutta.She is the most respected and revered woman on earth.Why?I think it is because of her work towards the society she lived in.She gave out everything she owned to the needy without discrimination.She died helping the needy.She left no material wealth on earth but her spirit lives on.She will be remembered in many generations to come,may be years after some very rich people will have been forgotten.Those who care much on discrimination,prejudice and differences are the opposite of the above character i have discribed above.They are people society call selfish.In fact this group is very capitalistic and they would keep everything under their roof than give even a grain to somebody who is starving.To them material wealth is very important.This lot is very lonely and desperate.They spend most of their time worrying about material wealth which in the end does not reciprocate.

Answer 6

In my point of view, people do not care more about others than themselves. Quite the opposite.

BUT, why people care about others and judge/discriminate? Everyone wants to be the best. When they can't be the best, they want to be superior to others. There are two ways to do this.

One is to rise above others in one quality or another. The other is to arrive at the conclusion that somehow, others are inferior. Obviously, the first requires effort and time; perhaps considerable effort. Second is easy and they only need to justify it to themselves. I believe many (not all) people choose to do the second.

The possibility for doing the second is limitless. Someone is short, some one is colored (skin), long hair, short hair, choice of clothing, shoes, went to certain schools, etc. Oh, another one is, someone is gay.... Remember, they don't really have to make sense to others.

In my view, people who use such reasoning and tactic are showing their own insecurity. The problem is, when you get group of people who think similar, they tend to develop their own legitimacy on these reasoning.

As I said in the beginning, it may appear to you, people care more about others, but this is in disguise. People care so much about their own image, in order to artificially improve them, they push down others.

That's my opinion.

Answer 7

People are constantly seeking solutions to their own unhappiness. We think that having a family and friends, a good job, or a nice house and belongings with plenty of money and entertainment will make us happy, and we desire those things. But, none of those things bring happiness, and everyone is constantly suffering misery. We are so deluded that we think that the temporary pause in suffering is called happiness. Because everyone is always suffering some kind of misery, we think that we must be doing something wrong. We try to hide our unhappiness from others, and they try to hide their unhappiness from us. In this way, we are thinking that everyone is happy except us, when in reality, everyone is just as unhappy as we are. We become envious of the happiness we think others are enjoying, and we begin thinking that they are happy at our expense. In this way, envy turns to anger. We express that anger in so many ways. We blame others because we don't have a better job, or a better family, or as many material comforts. We think that if only they weren't making our lives miserable, we could enjoy happiness. In short, we think that if only the entire world would stop being the way they are, we could become happy. We never stop to think that, no matter what we do, there is no real happiness here. Not for us, and not for anyone. We are all in the same miserable boat, and we shouldn't waste our time fighting with each other, because it won't solve the problems. We should simply try to make the best of a bad situation, and try to live peacefully amongst one another.

We focus on the differences because if we didn't, we would have to admit the truth. Suppose I am poor and you are rich. Because I think that being rich will remove all misery from my life, I can't imagine that you also suffer misery. I am thinking that you have nothing to complain about, ever. In fact, I may be so envious of your position, I may be thinking that your wealth is the cause of my misery. On the other hand, you may think that being wealthy places you in a position to constantly be taken advantage of by people like me, who don't have the responsibility and worries that come with wealth. You may think that poor people are deliberately avoiding the responsibility, and placing the burdens of society on you. In this way, you become callous to the needs of others, and prideful of your power over those with less. Of course, you may find it miserably lonely and almost impossible to trust people. So, both you and I are focusing on our own misery only, and seeking ways to avoid the truth.

This is the state of mind of people. We are all equally unhappy, and are all subjected to miserable conditions, yet we are always looking for a solution. So often, we convince ourselves that the cause of our misery is other people, when the actual cause of our misery is being on planet Earth.

Answer 8

Not sure I can be of any help. I think that alot of people are just generally unhappy with what they have been given in life and take it upon them selves to find the fault and blame on the other around them. Like blaming them for the lack of what they have or need or the ability to get it rather than doing what they can their self's to acquire a better lives for themselves.

Answer 9

prejudging is a very wrong thing to do...but it is also a survival skill...laid deep within our souls. some people care so much about others lives,money,homes,cars,boats...the list goes on and on. Society teaches that that from a child's age we should be able to characterize people,by appearance alone.

Answer 10

well- for one thing i think that people like to see their idols fall. it makes them more human, more attainable to us "commoners". Brittany Spears for example. people love a trainwreck. its sad but true. and it somehow makes us feel good to see someone at the top fall from our good graces. its they "well they arent so great look what happened to them". it makes us feel better about our own lives- the drudgery of the everyday vs that of society's elite. it also gives us something to think of besides what is going on in our own lives- a distraction if you will- good or bad. at the same time the media forces their lives on us. Anna Nicole Smith's death was on CNN all across the globe. My friend was in Helsinki, Finland at the top of the world and HE found out about her death.
On the same token we also need role models, lives to aspire to above our own. Who wants to be rich if you dont know what to do with all the money? watch Paris Hilton!

but then every so often people feel the need to involve themselves in the lives of others so deeply without understanding the circumstances surrounding that situation. Teri Shrivo for example ( probably misspelled that) became EVEYONE's business! Who's decision is that?? Her death was the decision of her family's and no one else has the write to say that a woman living as a vegetable HAS to live. what kind of life is that? why must we prolong the agony of our loved ones because some random person believes that its against THEIR beliefs to let that person go? some religions are against autopsies- should we force those people to gut their loved ones? same with abortion- who is going to determine if abortion is given for the "right reasons"? (those being rape, incest, risk to the mother or child, etc) Same with the morning afterpill. The morning afterpill should be ON HAND if a woman should choose to take it even if she is in a religious hospital. That is HER belief. so are we saying people are not free to believe as they wish? is that part of our rights as Americans? nay- Humans? while i do not support the use of abortion as a means of birthcontrol- sometimes it is a necessity beyond the "accepted" reasons.

at the same time, should we not intervine on child abuse? on neglect? on racism? on hate? while we must stand up for those who cannot stand up, we must have boundaries- those boundaries teeter on a very fine line however there IS a line. there is a point at which we must say, "this is not my place- the family needs to decide for themselves based on their knowledge and their beliefs".

hope i helped- feel free to use any of that if you can! and forgive the spelling.