What insight would be helpful for mankind ?

Answer 1

Where to draw the line when it comes to selfishness, and following the golden rule wouldn't be a bad idea either.

Answer 2

To hurt another is to hurt yourself. The simile I have often heard is it is like throwing a hot coal at someone. You might hit them, you might not, but either way you get burned.

This actually has some strong scientific evidence to back it with the discovery of mirror neurons. These neurons are what allow us to empathize with others. They let us understand what it is they are doing and how it would feel to do it. When we see someone lift their arm, our mirror neurons fire off a pattern that matches that behavior internally so we comprehend it. These neurons are also responsible for language acquisition and learned behaviors, social or otherwise. They are why you cringe when you see someone take a painful fall, you feel it, just not fully.

So if every action we view and preform is filtered through this empathetic lens, we are irrevocably linked. When I get angry and yell at you, not only do I experience the unpleasantness of anger (i.e. not contentment and happiness) but I also know how you are feeling from that beratement, and in fact I share in some of the discomfort of the receiving end. There is hard science to back it, but the world is still waking up.

Contrastingly, when we are helpful, kind, compassionate to others, it also has an effect on us as well. We feel happier, brighter, more alert. We share in the kindness. It is what is between people that has meaning.

Answer 3

I think the best insight people could have is that we are all just hairless monkeys.

We like to think that humans are somehow different from everything else in the universe, but it's just not so. If you took an average person and broke their body apart into its periodic table elements and made little piles and sold them to a chemical company you'd make about $2.50.

Humans are nothing more than animals with enough intelligence to alter their own environment. We changed our environment so fast we think that we don't change. That humans are constant and it's the world which changes around us.

Well, we're wrong. As a species we haven't been around longe enough to prove that we are a viable product of evolution. Cockroaches have, and they did it without brains.

Anywho, I think that puts everything into the proper perspective.

Answer 4

There are many possible answers to this question, but in my opinion, a very important one would be the realization that,
when all is said and done, there is but one "race" and we are ALL members of it, and that is the HUMAN race.

And, as an extension of that, we share a common fate as co-dwellers on the same planet. If ever there was a time for global thinking, it is now!

Answer 5

Being able to live up to the term "mankind". An old joke says " too bad freeways aren't and mankind isn't".

Answer 6

anything abstract. abstract is the future, what happens when science solves every logical problem in the universe? probibaly not a whole lot, but one can only imagine what insights any abstract theory has about the universe. the mathimatical quantification of abstract theory is the logical next step in the evolution of man, and from that answers could be endless.

Answer 7

That life is impermanent but precious at the same time. That we are all here for one another and one action effect oneself as well as all. Individual we each should realized that a person is not define by anything unless he/she choose to define him/herself by that definition. That for each minute of living is a second chance for each one of us to do what we didn't do but always wished that we had.

Answer 8

To know the anti-christ has been here way before the collection of books known as the Bible got put together, long before tower of babel came into existence, way before humans became bureaucratic...

Answer 9

If man would begin to use their Turn Signal...then there would be World Peace!

Also....look both ways before you cross the street...you'll live longer.

Answer 10

to be sympathetic to others and not be apathetic
that we are put on earth to help each other:)