A question about the negative side of humanity

Have we really become that much better though?

There's so much that so called "civilized" society ignores.

Every day now for decades I see many just ignoring the plight of others. Not even bothering to ask in person what troubles others. Most especially those not very well known to them.

Helping them is actually out of the question since they simply just refuse to ask and do not want to know.

You can not help if you don't wish to know. Easier to just ridicule or even punish others.

Those that take the only positive side of life actually are the worst. Because to them there are no negatives. Only positives. So no need to ask, which futhers others suffering and therefore negativity and resentment.

Think of when people gather around some fight and film and laugh instead of helping resolve things, even otherwise "good" people become bad under some circumstances...

Go and say on twitter (or I guess here) that men can't be women (no matter what hormones, surgery, or clothes are involved), or vice versa, and watch exactly the same thing happen.

But these women could go back to selling eggs after a few days. JK Rowling (who didn't even say what I just said in the above paragraph), is getting death threats.

My thought is we do exactly the same thing today. Actually we're probably worse because we throw virtual eggs for thought-crimes.

I think a lot worse things have happened throughout history

This reminds of that time I saw that mugger get burned alive after being beaten senseless. This is why I value the individual more than the collective, Omelas troglodytes

No nerds there. I can tell you that for certain.

Moral of the story is 'Don't sell rotten eggs'.

I think it stinks

How far have we come from those times. Not far enough i think still to much cruelty in the world

Some of the newspaper reports of the lynchings in the early 20th century make this look incredibly tame. Embarrassing, yes. But they were still alive afterwards.