Originally posted by leonheartmm
actually, it depends very much on what perspective you look at things as. if survival to yo mean merely overt preservation and existant which can be gotten with adequate food, water and lack of disease. then yes, humanity is very sinful indeed. however, if you also include catering to personal desires/social necessities/peer pressure and the SELF built through society{n if u didnt cater to it ud be very much a homeless person, alone and suffering, bt still alive} then you can start calling such actions survival too. there are an almost infinite perspective to look from, ill only try to give my take on a few.proving one's worth to one's own mind: this is often the reason for much cruelty, if the SELF is taugh socially to glorify inequality, acheive succes at all costs, run over people, and become greater and better than others than a person who isnt able to show cruelty towards people would feal wortheless in his or her own eyes. ofcourse it can turn into mockery as well.
trying to FIT IN: often times, to prove our worth to OTHERS to gain the comfort of ACCEPTANCE, we do things which makes it seem to others that the person in question is above an average man and worthy of being in the group{a good example is the kind of things ud have to do to join a bully group or gang}
fealing better about one's ownself: often times if we show spite, disgust and hatred to another apparently lower person than us, it helps to validate our own state of being and makes us feal BETTER about our ownselves and our own insecurities. furthermore, by making ourselves beleive the other person deserves it, we can justify the superiority of our moralles and conduct. this type of mentality is often found in racism/colonialism/nationalism etc. and specially relegions where self righteousness and happiness at the thought of the FILTHY HEATHENS getting what they deserve and burning eternally in hell is so likeable to some.
-channeling negetivity and frustration: this point in connected to the last because from another perspective, when you feal SELF RIGHTEOUS, and have a labelledgateway to DIRECT your frustrations towards, you take outt your general anger/discontent/frustration on sum1 else even though they are not at fault for it, and dont feal bad afterwards because it is justified to you.
information management: this is also in ways linked to the "fealing better about yourself" point. psychologically, it is proven that your mind can not handle all the stimulus it recieves from your senses. that is why the greater part of visual information is lost as is audial information{ud be surprised how little you actually retain}. in social psychology, the brain does a similar thing with CATEGORISING, that is, with making sense of the people in the world around you.
stereotyping is the direct result of this phenomenon, the reaosn you stereotype is because, if you tried to do justice and remember everything your senses took in about all the people that you met, your brain would explode{figuratively}. so it is much more convenient to label people into more iniform categories with certain characteristics which always hold true and it is deemed useless to think about individual differences. that is why entire nations can easily justify their outlet for negetivity and cruelty towards other nations because theyr just BAD. jenocide, ehtnic cleansing etc. it is also the reason why most people make the fundamental attribution error. i.e. the phenomenon wherebye, an individual almost always attributes predispositional reasons to another person's behaviour/state and attributes situational reasons to his/her own behaviour.
on a slightly different not. politically, cruelty is often used as a means to spread FEAR, which is a great tool for keaping the masses loyal or under your control.
thats about it for now. srry if i went on too long. you an asses whether these factors should be deemed as survival or sinfulness.{which again depends on perspective lol}
hey this took time to write. 😠 😠 darn page change. 🙂