Do you think people are generally too sensitive or too insensitive?

Question

Give some examples why.

Answer 1

Your question was difficult to answer. It depends on a person's personality , his experience and his living environment . Rumour has it that :" A man is shaped by nature."

Firstly, the personality is based on a person's family nurture before five years old. Some kind of cheats and suffering in his or her childhood will always remind them of a second thought over everything. On the other hand , parents exert a profound influence on their child's outlook on the world and other people. So , in a sense, sensitiveness can be taken over from parents.

secondly, the bitter experience is rooted much deeper than mercy ones. A warn from wounds will always come over you when you got similar situations. Rope will scare a farmer who has been bitten by a snake. So sometimes a experienced is more sensitive than a new comer. To be funny , a youngster's courage and insensitive is what a senior worker jealous of . We shall be careful. Enthusiasm and sensitiveness can be accepted by different employers.

Some people think that female is more sensitive than male.
I think the rule is too general. Maybe being delicate and self -protection make female sensitive.

Answer 2

This is a tricky situation. Yus, some leos may come off as insensitive, the way she said suck it up and get over it. Some leos think that you can solve sruff on your own. And they tend to look at life through a very happy p.o.v. Generally. Which may mean they won't focus on deep feelings like your feelings as much, because it takes being sad. But your leo might just need to be aware of your needs too. And it sounds like she is. And gets annouyed. But maybe tell her you want something close and to the heart, so then you and your leo can focus on happy things afterwards, because your needs are important just like her's. Emotionally understanding, gentleness, and comforting are a great thing to have :)

Answer 3

I think people are more insensitive now than ever. Society in general. most people these days think about one thing , and that is themselves. Just observe your ever day lives,watch the people around you. Not many people stop to help others. They are too busy going nowhere fast,and trying to make that extra buck. Years ago we knew our neighbors,we watched after their children outside. we cared more. Money was not our first priority,family and friends were. Somewhere down the road we have lost our souls.

Answer 4

Definately too sensitive. The 'environment' created by the marxist PC enforcers has destroyed the individuals right and ability to think for themselves; hence the fear of doing something wrong,or upsetting the status quo, usually dictates the outcome of ones decision making.

Answer 5

The answer to this question depends, and you are going to get many different answers. People are sensitive and insensitive depending on who they are, and what their lives are like. The job they have, may also depend on their sensibility. For an example, store managers are usually strict not caring people. When they look to interview and hire job applicant, they often are stubborn on who they will interview. Store managers don't care about about applicants, who want to do the job they applied for the right way. They just want to interview applicants who they want. This means, that store managers are often careless and selfish.

I applied over 10 times for a job in retail, and I've been told by a supermarket manager, that they don't care about applicants who want to do they job right. They juast want to interview and hire who they want. I've been yelled at before, by a supermarket manager once for applying for a job. Store managers make it uneasy to apply for a job in retail. Most store managers are insensitive.

I have realized before, that people who are easy-going and calm, are usually sensitive if they think possitively. A person being easy-going helps him/her to be more sensitive, and it does give that person the habit of being that way.

I hope I explained this enough.

Answer 6

A bit of both.
I'm going to get in trouble with this statement but too bad.
I find most Americans ( though there are some really cool ones as well ) to be too sensitive and insensitive arrogant bastards.
They censor they most ridiculous words in movies but they don't censor their digustingly idiotic opinions.

Answer 7

Too sensitive, definitely. Political correctness has got us by the balls. And yes, I said "balls", any woman who wants to can now call for my head to be on a silver platter.

People couldn't even watch the "I'm thinking Arby's" figure skating commercials without calling their corporate offices and complaining about "glorification of wife beating."

Answer 8

Westerners have been indoctrinated to be overly sensitive, and as Bill Mahar says, "cry babies" over small potatoes.

How right he is. We have the best living standards in the world, many more times greater than the vast majority of the population, the most luxuries, conveniences, gov't assistance, yet we whine and bellyache and speak of being "offended" every time somebody points out chinese drivers are lousy, the faaaag word gets blurted, or we joke about a polish guy locking his family in his car.

The fundamental reasons behind this politically correct generation was the creation of special interest groups - groups of race, sex, and sexual orientation that are given billions each year to raise awareness programs about injustices against them.
Politicians originally created these groups because they protested and lobbied for funding, thus the "smartest" politicians promised them money in exchange for their votes.

If I'm an unemployed guy who got axed from a company because an inexperienced inferior worker got my job because of his color, I'd probaly vote for the politician that stands up and says:
"You White guys have a rough deal, I'm going to fight to get your well deserved jobs back."

Little do most realize, these groups constantly demand more gov't money, and sell exaggerated sob stories each year for more funding. Subsequent "victim mindsets" ensue with group members, who dwell on injustices few living today took part in. The groups become like clubs, where members feel warm welcomes, acceptance, and comradary. (breeding grounds for brainwashing.)

They walk around like victims with chips on thier shoulders, never realizing its the constant indoctrinating propaganda from their special interest groups, now schools, media, court system, and entertainment industry that reenforces this theory.
Hatred is bred, and the problems constatly get bigger.

Bottom line, I'm a white male producer who employs alot of people from these groups, who can get called a dipshit faggot white trash loser oppressor part of an old boys club who deliberately keeps others down, and I ignore it because its pure bu11shit.

Little do the groups who bash us realize, they're doing to us exactly what hitler did to the jews. if you're a white male in 2007,. you're considered scum by people with serious "inferiority" complexes instilled by years of social conditioning.

So yes, we live in a society where sensitivity is more important than truth, where feelings are more important than facts, commitment is more important than individuality, safety is more important than fun, children are more important than people.

Answer 9

People are both.
I'm hypersensitive, but I'm insensitive when I encounter with someone who is reallllllllllllly idiotic.

Answer 10

I agree with what the lady [wife&mom said].
With me, I'm overly sensitive.
I take even a somewhat nice complement and turn it into a suicidal reason. if people say 'I love your hair!", I think they don't like my face!? am i ugly? they only like my hair!?".
But when others explain their sappy life dealings, I truly don't care, I have no sympathy.
My friends cousin died, whom she was close too, and all I could say was "aww?".
I try to care, but i can't cease it.
But my overly sensitive self leads to horrifying dreasm, like suicide.