If people all over the world were mostly of the same size and no one was unattactive would we be kinder to each other?
2007-09-03 05:23:26 · 21 answers · asked by April First 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
No. If all of your suggestions were true, humans would simply find other things about which to disagree with one another. It's truth. I have seen it happen so many times it's not funny.
In a school, kids teased one another about clothing. The school went to uniforms only. Now the kids tease one another about other things.
In my country, skin color was an issue of contention. I went to visit my sister who works in the Congo, where all the locals are black. Their contentions arose from geographical issues rather than skin color. ("He's from the North," one lady said of a man nearby. "Don't trust him with your children.") In Norway, where skin color was also a non-issue, geography was again used as a point of discrimination.
You may have heard of the teacher who ran an experiment in her classroom some years back. She announced that, for this day only, all people with brown eyes were better than people with blue ones. They were the privileged ones that day. Sure enough, by the end of the day, the blue-eyed kids were feeling a bit downtrodden and inferior. The next morning, the teacher announced that blue-eyed people were better than those with brown eyes, and were accorded all the privileges that day as such rank deserved. The same thing happened: the blue-eyed ones lorded it over their brown-eyed classmates, just as the others had done the previous day.
It is human nature to try to make ourselves feel better about ourselves by making someone else appear inferior. Humans will take absolutely anything available to make themselves seem or feel better than someone else.
The common answer to this, naturally, is that everyone should feel good enough about him- or herself not to need to put others down to feel superior. This, of course, is based on selfish feelings (how I feel about myself) and not on true caring for others, so it would never work. The only real answer lies in truly putting others before oneself, which -- in this world, anyway -- will never come to pass.
2007-09-03 05:51:20 · answer #1 · answered by thejanith 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I really think that people seperate each other by their religion or race way too unfairly, but being different makes us who we are. If people discriminate others by being different, than that's their own problem and will have to pay for it later in life. Difference might seperate us from one another in very unfair ways, but no one is the same. Not one single person. If a certain type of person was treated better than others, then that would technically be only one single person, because no one is the same type. People really should realize that what's on the inside counts more, but some people where just born with the insticnt to judge people quickly... sometimes too quickly. I have no idea why we prejudice some people like this. It would be wonderful if we could all live in peace, but apperance isn't only the problem.
If only some people would just realize how stupid war is! Fighting is not the right way to stand up for your beliefs, it is just immature! It's like saying "hey everyone I killed the most people so I'm the best." That is the most immature way to handle things! Fighting to solve problems is just like a he-said-she-said fight with seven year olds!
2007-09-03 12:45:22 · answer #2 · answered by **dAnCe** 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope! Sorry, we would find something else to fight about. I took an anthropology class in college and the teacher said, during a lecture, give me to people and I will show you peace. 1 will lead the other will follow, give with 3 people and in a short time it will be 2 against 1. This is true, I think. Although even with 2 people I think it would depend on personality...What if they were both leaders?
2007-09-03 12:32:09 · answer #3 · answered by beth l 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe. But that's impossible to accomplish. If people all over the world would start thinking of us as having only one race, the Human race, and if we would all be tolerant of each others differences of religious beliefs and leave each other to live in peace it would help. But, that may be just as impossible to accomplish. Everybody would have to be on the same page about it. Hell, I can't even get 6 people on the same page about what restaurant they want to go to!
2007-09-03 12:31:10 · answer #4 · answered by kj 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
More peace? Perhaps, but just barely. Humans are still primitive enough that we would find _something_ to fight over. There's always politics. And resources. And just plain lust for power. I think the human species has a bit more maturing to do before we can finally put violence behind us as a relic of a more barbaric past.
2007-09-03 12:33:50 · answer #5 · answered by R[̲̅ə̲̅٨̲̅٥̲̅٦̲̅]ution 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No.
People were mostly all of one color and religion in Medieval Europe. That didn't stop the wars. There are economic, political, and personal reasons why wars are fought. It's not mainly an issue of color and religion.
2007-09-03 12:29:18 · answer #6 · answered by Underground Man 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nope.
Colour, religion, race are all just excuses for our competitive nature.
The simple fact is that we are inherently greedy and we compete with each other for resources. We would simply find a different excuse for covering the real reason why we go to war with someone else.
2007-09-03 12:36:13 · answer #7 · answered by the_lipsiot 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We would not have more peace. We would find other things to fight about it.
It all comes down to greed. We are greedy animals and want more than the next person.
It doesn't matter what it is but we want more of it!
2007-09-03 12:33:48 · answer #8 · answered by spidertiger440 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, people will always find some way to make themselves feel above someone else. But really, if we were all the same, how boring would that be??
2007-09-03 12:29:46 · answer #9 · answered by kathy_is_a_nurse 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The problem is not merely external attributes or cultural norms, it exists in qualities that inhere within the nature of the human condition itself.
2007-09-03 12:56:25 · answer #10 · answered by Timaeus 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋