Are we loosing our humanity?
By Slayer125
@Slayer125 (53)
Canada
December 3, 2006 10:28am CST
I have noticed that we as humans seem to be loosing our humanity...loosing our ability to care for or fellow humans. I walk down the street and see alot of people not looking at you but through you. Pick up a news paper or turn on the television and see stories about people being killed or raped or beatenand hear about atrocious acts being commited by people against people and wonder if we have lost something...or if there is something within us that compells us to destroy one another
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29 responses
@vijay12 (1642)
• India
3 Dec 06
Yes,we are losing our humanity,due to consumerism,greed and luxury.We care for our tomorrows.Hence acuumulate wealth for ourselves and the following generations.
Very few poeple,do not want more,even if it is unnecesary.Corporates and politicians add to this in their desire for welth and power.
@moneyseeker (1024)
•
3 Dec 06
I'm not sure we ever had that 'something' you say we may have lost. One day perhaps we will properly respect others regardless of race, religion, colour, looks and so on.
I think it's easy to dwell on the bad in the world, there is also a lot of good - trouble is the media don't report that.
@jricbt (1454)
• Brazil
3 Dec 06
I have to agree to that. Did most of us ever had this "humanity"? Murders, rapes, all kinds of barbaric behavior have been part of human history for centuries.
Yes, there is good, a lot of it, media doesn´t report it, because it does not get high ratings, part of guilty belong to those who watch tv, prefer to see the bad side of things and complain that "media shows only the worst".
@sunrisekn (1466)
• United States
3 Dec 06
I agree, slowly but surely we are all be desensitized. It's quite sad. I am trying to raise a sensitive, caring, respectable boy and it difficult.
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@funfreak2k2 (1734)
• India
3 Dec 06
yes, we are losing our humanity. coz people r no more afraid to God, not even to the cries of their own souls.
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@september_1st (3209)
• Romania
3 Dec 06
This is exactly what i was saying in another discussion regarding homeless people. Unfortunately we let ourselves driven by money and stop carrying for each other. We've became little robots, going to work everyday, eating, sleeping... we ceased to admire nature, to enjoy simple things in like, like rainbows, fireworks, sunsets. When i think that we are born so pure and free of worries related to what we become in life... it's just sad. Take care and since i see that you're new here... wellcome to myLot!
@Slayer125 (53)
• Canada
4 Dec 06
Sorry I did not see your post about the homeless, I will have to search around and see if I can find it. Thank you for the welcome.
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@cr1st1nel (3564)
• Romania
4 Dec 06
I consider that we really start to loose our humanity.. the people in our dayse have changed so much. now it is no more the honest or frank people.We've going from bad to bad
@smith_velocity (1488)
• India
4 Dec 06
i hate to say this, but we are, i read a post on mylot, where a couple tortured children, the way they tortured them, that cannot be an act by a human!!!
@rajendrababu (1966)
• India
4 Dec 06
yes dear i too have the same feeling,that we started loosing humanity.is it because of the mechanical life we lead,not evev says thanks if some one help us, not giving importance for own family members,frustrating.
@Zhilvjmei (25)
• China
4 Dec 06
Yean,I think that we have lost something which we don't want to make up.now by and by i find we become indifferent and don't want to care of another guys expect ourselives.sometimes we are upset for seeing so much people are experencing tough .but what we can do for them?
@win0120ph (135)
• Philippines
11 Dec 06
It depends on how you define humanity. Humanity itself quite a complex word - quite aptly because human is a complex individual. I may be isolationist but i am still human. I may have a thousand friends but it does not anything to my humanity. I may do inhuman acts but i am still in every respect a human being.
There is nothing in us or in our humanity that makes us do evil/atrocious acts. Rather, it is what is about us or what has become us that make us do these things.
@prash2807 (163)
• India
4 Dec 06
Yes! Slowly but surely, we r becoming mere money making machines. No care for the world and its people. Become more and more materialistic by the day. It s quite alarming!
@ashish1983 (138)
• India
4 Dec 06
i think now a days people loss their humanity. if some on fight with each other no one try to stop their fight and no one wants to hel[p each other because they think that they don't want to waste their time .
@rikpallav (1242)
• India
4 Dec 06
YES!!! I am very much agree with you... will all the things that we can see around us and all the things that we sometime do reflects that we are loosing humanity and respect with out fell humans...
