Do you believe that bias is natural?

Question

Why do YOU think that people often form bias, and don't see a problem with it? Why are humans so apt to judge?

Answer 1

It's a survival skill.  Many unsavory human actions are survival skills - like stealing or murder or lying.  Many people have saved themselves with a carefully crafted lie.  And how many people stayed alive by cleverly stealing a little bread when there was starvation?  

Believing you are superior (even when you're clearly not) is part of survival.  You have to believe you're worth saving.  While other people are often judged unworthy.  

We are finally built to survive - things like religions and government attempt to mitigate some of these human actions and emotions by saying they're "wrong".  But these old survival skills are always practiced by people.  Got to stay in practice!

Answer 2

Yes. Nature itself produces inequality of bodies and minds.

Answer 3

I think people are trained to be bias. I think they judge based on what they've been taught. We've done it for millennium. Humans know it's best to err on the conservative side.

I have a natural instinct. My bias is about body language. That's very natural.

Are you asking something else?

Answer 4

bias is natural because your using yourself as reference

(black people are bias towards other black people, white to white, conservatives to conservatives, I'm black btw)

otherwise you have low self-esteem

there is an alternative where you won't have bias but it will require vast amounts of knowledge  

Answer 5

bias is natural - we are supposed to be able to grow beyond that.

After all, we are not amoeba or paramecium.

Most people don't see a problem with it because they form the same biases as those around them.

Answer 6

Yes, its in our nature to be biased to the side we "like" most. Its just our thing. Its just the way our brains have become "wired". 5000 years of superiority and control can't just be thrown out the window.