Quote:
Originally Posted by Pharm Girl
Sometimes it isn't very pretty. 
In primitive cultures, the primary source of threat to human beings is Nature. But in economically-advanced countries, it is not nature, but other human beings who make us feel threatened most of the time. 
Human beings are constantly hurting each other in both their intimate relationships and in their social relationships.
Yes, sometimes the pain they inflict is physical, but most of the time it is emotional in nature. With a bit of reflection, it becomes quite apparent that Emotional Pain is the single greatest remaining threat that human beings must deal with in the modern era. |
primitive cultures were just as cruel if not more viciously brutal... just a few hundred years ago the majority of the human population were slaves or pseudo slave peasants and different groups of people were engaged in constant wars with eachother and within themselves.
human nature is such that people are cruel too each other, just like every living organism on the planet we involved in a Darwinian/Malthusian world where you are in competition with your own species for resources and mates. education, society, equality and democracy try to suppress this instinctual selfishness but it is always there more so in some people. but less developed/less democratic are a lot worse so im happy to live in a reasonably stable place
realizing the fact that people arent inherently good is important because even if you have the most intelligent ideology and you believe in respecting other people the fact is that you are still at the mercy of a person who does not have such nice ideology.
BDAT