Why are people so cruel these days?

Question

there is so much wrong with everthing and so many people have negative additudes and just brings other people down.

Answer 1

because these days are very competitive...

Answer 2

Humans are innately cruel. Some people choose to control it and choose a path of kindness while others enjoy bragging, lying, stealing, and bringing people down.

The people that are cruel enjoy hurting others until they get hurt then they think the world is against them. They can't ever see what they're doing is wrong. It's all about their "poor pity what did I do wrong," attitude.

Answer 3

The Term called the ME Generation says it all and is encouraged by lack of Morals, selfishness and the indoctination into Secular Humanism, making all points of view Valid.

Answer 4

maybe cuz nowadays we just see ourselves and not further.

I believe that today's movies with so much violence has a big effect on this behavior too.

Answer 5

People may seem cruel, but I think its just a defense mechanism that has developed to cope with their environment.

Like with crime rates going up, its not so wrong. Try going around friendly and trusting, you might just end up being scammed and hurt.

Answer 6

The answer: Because some people - not all - some people don't care for other people, or think about how they feel. And when you don't care about what happens to someone, then you'll do whatever you want regardless of the consequences to them. What's why people are so cruel......because no one gives the d**n anymore.

Answer 7

These days, those days, what's the difference?

In the dark ages, public executions were super popular forms of entertainment, to say nothing of throwing c**p at publicly detained prisoners.

Public ridicule was an encouraged thing.  You could do know wrong to the criminal.

There are many examples of the rampant cruelty of society, in general, in days past.  If anything, it's gotten better.

Torturing animals, for example, is no longer a publicly accepted form of children's amusement.  Every generation asks this question, but it really just keeps getting better.

You know that song '16 at war'?  It's moving, and invokes sympathy, yadda yadda...  But what about 16 year olds who literally live in countries at war, where their whole block could get blown up any day.

Same deal... the things most of us have to face as 'hardships' these days ain't really so hard, comparatively speaking.

Answer 8

I believe the basis of this would be in something I heard at an employment rally one time- it sounded odd at the time but really seems truer every time I think about it.

It went something like this (not sure if this is exact or not but anyway)

Out of 100 people we meet we will likely

Have no common ground or interest in about 13% people (in fact we will likely dislike these people) (foes)

We will find great common ground and like 5% (friends)

The remaining 82% we will be able to tolerate and will consider them acquaintances.

As I said don't quote me for the exacts everyone I have found uses a different numerical variable, but when you think about it- we focus on the thoughts of the 13% as to why they don't like us and the 82% is only tolerable so sometimes they are great and other times not so great.

I really thought the guy who said this had just had too many cocktails the night before, but I am finding it does make more sense.

Additionally human nature isn't to be nice.  Typically the first words we hear are no, bad, don't, etc...

We are taught hate but indifference and often what is perceived as cruelty in my opinion is innate within us.  This would also be derived in most religious aspects that we know bad before good.  Being judgmental is almost engrained into us from an early age.  Like it or not we are a product of our environment and this typically means we take on our mentor's attitudes.

I guess if you also consider the economy with relation to the housing market and employment- you would face the cup issue- is it half full or half empty.  When people face the thought alone that they lost something they tend to feel more down trodden.  If you really consider you can lose a source of income but the job was never truly yours to have (the company still owned your position- you merely filled their need at that time) and you own the home (once the mortgage company does not have a paper in which you provide right by legal documents pledging the property as collateral- so it is not your home, it's your and the banks home and when you foreclose it is now just the bank's burden alone)

We have needs for food, shelter, water and a feeling of safety when we realize that our principle teachings are material it tends to release us to feelings of helplessness rather than contentment when we have our basic needs provided for regardless if they are they way we were taught or how we envisioned them.

So my thought or opinion is people just do not appreciate what they have- because what we are taught is we need more- a nicer car, a new home, designer clothes, expensive jewelry, etc...  and we are often not taught self-confidence, acceptance, and equality- so when we lose hope in what we were/are taught- we lose ground in the cup half full theory and become more dispaired.  The final aspect of my thought is the statement "misery enjoys company"- when we are not continent with ourselves and we envy what others have or we believe they have- we become more intune with being the jealous child and bringing them down- I guess the key feature of cruelty is the lack of ability to believe in ourselves and enjoy others success and not strive for it or try to diminish their successes in envy and greed.

I am just happy to have my basic needs met and thankful that through the rough times, I have my family and fredom to be able to share my thoughts and opinions freely and not have to take on other people's opinions.  Like a number of other people things have changed and I have had to extend the time frame on some of my goals but it no less diminishes that I have faced the good times and the bad and still believe in myself enough to know that I will succeed.  Our economy is facing a cycle- the sad part is although there are a number of similar circumstances in our history books- we have still proven that like children, we have to make our own mistakes, rather than learning from others.  I guess in the end if we can realize that helping others and not attacking them or being cruel to them will ultimately bring back what our focus should have been on all along: do unto others as you wish them do unto you.  I think we need a bigger dose of the movie Pay it Forward right now, and less me, me ,me.

Answer 9

GREED, SELF INTEREST AND A BASIC LACK OF COMPASSION.Look no further than the british conservative party!!!!!!!!!

Answer 10

because they just think of themselves and are jealous of others.