By and large, do you think people are too self-involved to care about the world around them?

Answer 1

In certain cultures I think that is VERY true.

Answer 2

Will our government come around in this, sure even nonetheless that's going to take a protracted time because of the fact democracy is sluggish to dramatic transformations. the individuals will adapt quicker because of the fact we've greater to lose as quickly as we lose earth than if we stored it. additionally, the worldwide isn't in possibility, you in common terms could desire to get out and notice the worldwide, and additionally you will see that there are nonetheless many places that are untouched. you are able to continually do your section via shifting onto a farm, far flung from the chaos of a city, and raise young little ones there. Feed the pheasants grain in iciness, set up chicken feeders and baths. the place I stay, we've falcons! those birds are meant to be shy of folk, yet primary I see him looking no quite a few hundred ft from my residing house. additionally, what do you mean that there is not any nature, I stay in a position the place all you will see is grassland, farmland, and untamed wasteland. go with to be certain it for your self, go down I-80 till your in Nebraska, then turn off the line and climb the closest bluff, and additionally you will see lots open land, it makes you alter your concept. additionally, i'm a hunter, so as that makes me a murderer of nature eh? properly, i do no longer homicide the animals of the wooded area. I kill what i will consume, and that i consume what I kill. That deer I killed feeds me, my relatives, the coyotes interior the back backyard, my dogs, cats, and the all the different animals that walk via my property at night. do i hunt the biggest, proudest dollars? No, i hunt the diseased skinny dollars that are having adverse result on the gene pool. Is looking worry-free adequate that i will only go out and kill something? No, it rather is the worst lie somebody will ever inform you. I rather have spent 4 days in chilly rain, and in chilly airborne dirt and dust, to get a wager to be certain an antelope, and that i did no longer even get one this 3 hundred and sixty 5 days. additionally, I stay interior the Midwest, and that i've got on no account shot a pheasant in 4 years of looking them. So supply up knocking hunters. because of the fact the authentic hunters are ones like me.

Answer 3

I wouldn't say that people don't CARE, per se...but caring and actually finding the time and putting forth the effort are two different things. I know personally, there always seems to be something going on in my life or around my life that takes up a lot of my time and I always feel i COULD do more for others. I do try to make the effort though, I think it is important for my children...all of our children to realize the importance of even the smallest efforts. For example, every year before Christmas, I have my girls go through their things and pick out toys/books/clothes to give to less fortunate families. We also donate every couple of months to local food drives and things of that nature and I am forever reminding them how truly blessed they are. As a result, my daughters are very giving people and aware of things around them. So aware in fact, that it amazes me at times.

I guess I'm saying that I DO think people become very self-involved, but not always intentionally and not necessarily because they don't care about the world around them. Just because the chaos of our own lives sometimes gets in the way.

Answer 4

I don't think it is usually intentional, but is a way of viewing the world that has been programmed from birth. Of course we will look at things in terms of what it means for ourself first, as our own survival is quite important. However, the continuation of the species should be the greater instinct. Some people just never learn to look outside their own tiny world. They wouldn't even know how. Those people seem to be the ones we notice the most. I don't think most people are inherently so selfish. I might be an idealist, but I think most people look to the greater community first, and their own well-being last.

Answer 5

For the most part, yes, yes and yes. For example, I often hear about people complaining of say, a headache (because of lack of water or something like that). And they make it like it's a major illness. Like the saying, "don't make a mountain out of a molehill." Yet, many do. And then I see people dying of starvation, AIDS, terminal cancer, and other fatal diseases, and those having to suffer the after effects of war and whatever else. Then I think, how fortunate people are when all they have to worry about is a common cold or flu or headache because of lack of water, or falling down and getting a cut knee or something like that.
I remember when I was a kid, and I would still have to walk to school when the snow banks were bigger than me on the sidewalk and yet school closes today for a light snowfall. I often hear people say that in their life, they are number one and must take care of themselves first. I agree to take care of oneself. But if one takes care of oneself or puts oneself first, they are often the ones who are depressed, miserable, etc... Joy stands for:

Jesus
Others
You

Put Jesus first, others second, and yourself last. Doesn't mean you don't take care of yourself, just that you put Jesus first, others second, and yourself last. That's when you find true joy. To serve the Lord and do His work and show complete love for Him, to help others with their problems and make their lives easier, that gives one such a feeling of joy and satisfaction and happiness. There is no love or peace when people are being selfish.
As for me, I look at those in poverty or those who are homeless or those who have special needs (I myself would be considered under the poverty line but I don't consider myself in poverty) and feel compassion and if I can, help them with whatever I can do to make their lives easier and show them I care about them when many others would avoid them and walk away.
Like it says in James 2:15-16:
"Suppose a brother or sister is without clothes and daily food. If one of you says to him, 'Go, I wish you warm and well-fed', but does nothing about his physical needs, what good is it?"
If everyone in this world lived according to what God's Word (Jesus, the Bible) says, most of the world's problems would vanish and there would be a lot more peace and love.

Answer 6

Unfortunately, yes I do. We are constantly too worried about our own problems that we put ourselves before all others. It's sad. I think it is a way that society has programmed us to be and one of my ultimate goals is to overcome that mindset.

It's like that Nickelback song...
"If everyone cared and nobody cried
If everyone loved and nobody lied
If everyone shared and swallowed their pride
Then we'd see the day when nobody died"

Answer 7

yes, its true. but correct also.
u cannot bcome a teacher without being a student and thats what people r here. most of us r learning the lessons of life and trying to develop self. only if v finish our course, can v teach and guide and develop others. otherwise it will b like a blind man guiding way to another blind man.

Answer 8

I know many people who are involved in the world around them, and this is a cheerful thought (although I must add that not all are).

Answer 9

I agree, this is our knee-jerk reaction to most things.

I don't think it is always the case however. Everytime I see that dude ringing the 'Salvation Army' bell, it reminds me that giving of myself is good. Of course other things remind me of this as well.

Answer 10

Yes.

Answer 11

oh totally. the head cheerleader doesn't give a flying f*ck about the Tsunami in Asia.