People are selfish and that cannot be changed. Even though a person can feel bad for another, they may not do anything about it. For example, when most people watch the news and read or see something terrible happening to other people elsewhere, they would probably think to themselves, "Oh! That's terrible. I hope the situation gets better." Then what? Nothing. Many people even forget about it a few days later. Does that mean that we are not empathetic? Of course not. The moment you saw the bad news you were empathetic by even feeling bad for the people in the terrible situation. But did we do anything? Not really. We are selfish enough to not care and not do anything to help others even when they need help. Not to say that no one helps but the point is that most people don't.
In the end, if all people were empathetic and were not selfish, we would not have as many problems as we do today. People enjoy indulging themselves and sometimes even when they feel empathy, they make excuses not to help. It is the way people are but maybe if we can change that, the world could be a better place.
I agree with the fact that our overall nature is that of selfishness, and I liked the fact that you acknowledged the world problems revolve around lack of empathy and excess selfishness, however I believe that people may overcome this because sooner or later, one may realize that in order to overcome a weakness, selfishness must be overcome due to a need for improvement and future success, such as helping others out, for the sake of empathy or sympathy, rather than finding excuses to not help another person.
ReplyDeleteI think you are also right. However, I don't think the time when people overcome their selfishness is anywhere close to the time we are at right now. Honestly, maybe one day we will be able to really help other people in need.
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