Pandy · 12 answers · 3y

On a scale from 1 to 10 (1 being none, 10 being all) how much faith do you have in humanity? (i.e. is there good in this world)

There's a lot of good in the world, just as there's a lot of evil in the world. Most people are mostly benign and have a conscience, but they can be deplorably inconsiderate/damaging too, just depending on context. How socially acceptable something is, how easy it is to ignore the damage, the emotional/aesthetic framing of it, encouragement by peers, how much they stand to gain from it, chances of being caught, etc. etc.

My faith in humanity isn't based so much on the ratio of good to evil, but on whether I think humanity will ever make it to utopia or will always be ruled by evil and steeped in suffering. Evil rules the world because evil is the greater power seeker and because having no conscience means more effective tactics are on the table for you. And evil/selfishness loves to exploit as many people as possible for personal gain.

Maybe the dominance of evil, corruption, pain and suffering is more of a factor in my faith or lack of faith in humanity than our projected future, I'm not sure. As for our future, the idealist and spirtualist in me thinks we'll eventually emotionally evolve and make it to utopia, but the realistic observer in me thinks things will never improve that much until the day we destroy ourselves or at least have to start over again. Whichever may faith is based on, I'd say it's about a 2. I think I'm just bitter.

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