Why is there so much hatred here?

Question

That's really all I want to know.

Why?

Why can't we all get along?

So what if we don't all believe the same thing? Wouldn't life be boring that way? With so much diversity, we have the chance to learn new things everyday. I only wish half of what I learned everyday was not how ignorant human beings can be.

I know that there's a lot of prejudice between different belief systems, prejudice that goes back hundreds and thousands of years. My own belief system has some of those prejudices. I choose to ignore them, because they only get in the way of forming relationships with other people.

Why can't we just accept that we have differences and move on? Why can't we learn from each others' differences rather than condemn those who don't believe the same things.

Wouldn't the world (and the R&S section) be a better place if we didn't bite off each others' heads at every opporunity?

Answer 1

I think it is because we are all hiding behind our keyboards so to speak.If we were all sitting face to face there would be very little hatres,hostilitys,and the biting off of heads.I am guilty of it myself.When i first got on here i was outraged at some of the foolish thing people were spewing.I would find myself really pissed and carring it around with me for a few days. Now i pretty much just bruch off all the silly,hatred,negative things.But i hear you and its a shame.

Answer 2

OOOH hello every now and then I see a question like this and it does my heart good because I feel the same way you do.Why do people get so irate and call other people they never even met such horrible mean names just because 1 believes and the other doesn't. I love cherry ice cream,you love strawberry then I have to call you a stupid idiot because you don't like cherry and you call me dumb ignorant crazy etc, etc,If we don't look, act, talk, think, and sometimes even smell like some one else we have to be wrong.I really don't think this forum was meant for this it was meant to try and help someone give them your opinion research an answer to the best of your ability not to call a hurtful name because the question is the opposite of what you believe. You know what bothers me is you don't even have to answer the question at all, rather than be mean.Some answers that I have seem are downright vicious.As I am sure you will get some to this question.But I guess as long as there are some that believe and respect the rights of others to have a choice to believe how and what they believe then we will be ok. I think the word is judgemental boy what a word,you ever think that maybe the people that get so angry at you because you don't think like they think are really angry because they don't really know what to believe and need as many people to believe like them in order to feel its right and so when you don't it just gets more confusing for them and make them angry. Happy Holidays

Answer 3

It's about power. Human beings are driven by the need to attain as much power as possible. This taints what should be a utopian society and turns it into a society of individuals working alone to achieve near-nothing rather than a group of people working together. We constantly try to prove ourselves and achieve higher ground than others, never realising that once dead, all worldly posessions and connections will evaporate, the mind is all we will have left. It's a loop that we are born into. It's very hard to step out of it, I know I've tried and haven't managed.

Imagine if all the money that is spent on nuclear weapons and machines that harm people was used to feed the poor...

Answer 4

of course you're right. one hundred precent. and another thing, something i've been talking about for a few years now: capability of the u.s. and other nations to incinerate the world with nuclear weapons will, i have no doubt, will look far more terrible be be much deadliner in the future. whether it'll be a new technology, or just pumping up the lethality of nuclear warfare i don't know. but the emphasis is going to have to be on preventing war, not just on winning the war of the moment. i've shared this thought with a few people and they just seem to poopoo the idea. it'll be a year or two, maybe twenty or thirty, but it's gonna happen.

Answer 5

I wish there was a simple answer to this. I think alott of it has to do with the way one is raised in the family. Many things are passed down from generation through generation such as prejudice and hatred. It takes someone with real strength to stop the "train". it all begins at home.

Peace

Answer 6

A lot of people feel the need to be right. I know I enjoy a good argument, but mostly because it makes me think and because it helps me see another person's point of view. However, I should hope that doesn't count as a "biting off of heads," as you say. I guess people are just too defensive... or too offensive... or both.

Answer 7

When ones way of life, culture and traditions are threatened, like they are in this country, you will have hatred, it is governments immigration and multicultural monster that is the real culprit, and they are totally blind to the real problem here, so don't fret because you haven't seen anything yet, because it's going to get one hell of a lot worse before it gets better, and it will only change when governments close there doors to immigration in this country (Im talking the U.S. and Canada).

Answer 8

There's so much hatred around here because everyone thinks they're right, and they want to prove to the whole community that they're right, in hopes of converting some "lost souls."

...sadly it won't change for quite a while I think. I suppose the only think we can do is bite our tongues and wait for it to happen :(

Answer 9

I don't hate anyone. Nor do I bite anyone's head off. Don't let it get to you, dude. There are more important things in life than the opinions of strangers on Yahoo!Answers... If it bothers you so much, perhaps you ought not to visit?

Answer 10

For some, it's much easier to hate than to comprehend. And this section underlines that fact day after day.

Obviously, you've chosen the more difficult path of open-mindedness and tolerance.

Good luck!