Do humans really care about each other? Is it a good thing?

Some people don’t even care about themselves.

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Not just one answer. Some people do, some people don’t. And people care for others with different degrees – that’s human nature.

I feel I care for all people.
Although I dislike some people, if I see them trip I would help them up.
Or defend them in a case of emergency.
It’s only human, I think.

@rebbel I am not as good a person as you. There are some people that I have no care about – their welfare and happiness and safety are meaningless to me.

Not all that many, but some people just are completely beyond any of my feelings.

I think we have a tendency to sell our own species short. I feel the way you do at times, and think the planet would be better off if an asteroid zapped us out of existence, but then I see the outpouring of grief and anger from all over the nation and world, over the most recent gun atrocities, the massacre at the Black church and the recent school shootings, or I see a video on You Tube about strangers pulling together to push a stranded motorist out of harm’s way, and I realize there is hope for us yet. On a more personal note I had the experience over the last few days, of some friends of mine from here and Face Book, taking their own time to help me get back onto this site, after I logged off and forgot my password. They didn’t have to do it, they have no obligation to my old senile forgetful ass at all. But they helped me out any way. So take heart pal, there ARE good peeps in this world. You might have to look for them, but they are out there. Just my two cents on this issue.

Yes

Your perspective is on the jaded end of the cynicism scale. We often see and find what we expect to find, because we look for it, and don’t expect what we aren’t familiar with (or what we doubt exists), and we decide we are right before we have full evidence.

To a certain degree, yes. And to a certain degree, no. One must always look out for number one first. (Survival of the fittest. Kill or be killed. Eat or be eaten. The law of the wild, in one way or another, plays into our human lives as well as the lives of wild animals.)

We care enough to screw each other up, and then wonder why we can’t all just get along.

It’s the sweet mystery of life…

@Nomore_Tantrums Hi! I didn’t realize I missed you until just now when I saw your name. Welcome back; I’m glad people helped you!

@smudges Thank you! Senility I suppose, not the first time I have done that. Good to be back though.

I think that as a society we have lost a certain connectivity. 75 years ago people knew the other people in their neighborhood. They would talk and share life together. They got to know each other. And when something happened to one of the neighborhood, others would pitch in to help. In more recent years, that social link has been severed. People don’t know their neighbors. They don’t have the investment in other people. But it can be changed.

I organized a block party in our neighborhood. I got about 60 people to come. At that party neighbors met neighbors, long time residents met new residents, and relationships that have lasted for years were established. It just took a relatively small effort to break down the wall of isolation between each other. Then, a couple years later, one person’s house in the neighborhood was struck by lightning and caught fire in the attic. The FD came and put out the flames but the house was a complete mess. The wife was pregnant with their first baby and was a complete wreck. But as soon as the insurance guy left, there were people from the neighborhood showing up. We had about 20 people that just showed up…no one had to call them, no one had to ask them to help. Everyone just started cleaning up, salvaging what could be salvaged, taking care of the pregnant wife, someone went and got burgers and dogs so we could grill them and feed the group, a neighbor brought over a big box trailer that the couple could use to store the belongings that were being salvaged in.

As for the idea that your family didn’t support you, I will say that may be. I’ve known other dysfunctional families that don’t support each other. But you recognize this and recognize it as something wrong. Don’t continue to feed that monster. Don’t isolate yourself…be what you think your parents should have been. Don’t isolate yourself from others. Opening yourself up to others you will find that there are some out there that will want to use you and take advantage of you or even just to hurt you. But you will also find a lot of people that will be drawn to you.

People vary widely on how they come across to you and care or not care about you. This is all subjective.
I think that humans do care about other humans at the core. Some people are harder to show their core.