I am certain that human nature is based on empathy, love, and compassion. The kind of violence that erupted in Charlottesville this week seems to provide substantial disconfirmation of that assumption. If humans are essentially “built” for love, how can we treat each other with such cruelty? The answer is simple. We must be taught to hate and fear. I have written on this before and I hope you will read my post on this topic. https://real-matters.com/?p=56
We can choose to allow our natural empathy to flourish. We can choose to teach love and acceptance.
I agree with topic completely. We are not born with hate in our hearts, even the ones who suffer over time. Despite the hardships of life, it should not be able to control you by taking on so much cruelty in the world to those who are not deserving to it.
It is true that human nature is based on empathy, love, and compassion as that is scriptural or Godly. The Bible and the Quran talk about having empathy, love, and compassion for one another so there will be peace and harmony in the world. Humans as we are, we tend to forget these important values and in a society where these cardinal principles are absent, the result is disorderliness and cruelty.
I absolutely agree that human nature is based on empathy, love, and compassion. The bible teaches us that we should love our neighbors as our selves; however that isn’t the case today. As hard as life can be, it has caused us to fight against our own brothers and sisters creating a mass of hate and cruelty in our hearts. we forget where we came from and what we were programed to be. By making Love and compassion the main priority in our hearts and all the right norms of being optimistic as a human being, we will be what we were born to be; free and independent.
What happen that day was so shocking. We definitely wasn’t born to hate one another. When you have a child, they are open to talk to everyone and see the world in a pure light. We are taught to hate and fear by the world and people around us.
I agree with Professor Urban on this topic I read the short version and the long version of the article and it is true in my mind violence and hate does not solve anything it just makes things worse and I do believe that there are a lot more good kind hearted people out there in the world than people who hate all the time and I do agree that human nature is based on empathy, love and compassion and despite all the hard times he face in life he need to keep our heads held high and help ourselves and especially help others who may be struggling with certain things in there life.
People hate when they are prejudiced about an individual or a group and People develop fear because of dislike for something, the only way to take hate and fear from our Society is to educate one another on how to live as one people and also see each other as co-equals. We should not discriminate, when this is done in good faith, hate crimes in our communities will be eliminated, the one showing hatred will not hate anymore and the victim will not fear nothing and we all live peacefully in our community