Do you think we are meant to get along with others?

[Whatthefluff]

Yes

No

Other

[RedThread]

In what capacity do you mean? Friends? Relatives? Relationships? All of the above? I think humans are naturally tribalistic in nature. We naturally seek out social groups and others who think, look, feel, the same way we do about things. That was an important survival tactic throughout our more primitive history. Nowadays, it can really get in the way of being open-minded and accepting of different groups of people. We see those of different cultures as the 'other' or outsiders if they aren't like us. Those who think differently can seem like the enemy even when they're not. In our increasingly diverse world, this behavior hurts us instead of helping us make connections. It even allows government propaganda to dehumanize others when in reality we aren't all that different from each other. Cults and politicians prey on this natural behavior of humanity to set us against each other.

Yes, we are naturally social creatures who seek out tribalistic social groups and yes that can be helpful or hurtful depending on the circumstances.

[ohsheeT]

This is the way that I see it we all come from the same place we are all one and in order to go to where we go after we pass you must get along with everyone without any conditions whatsoever it's love it's peacefulness once you find this and you can be happier friends with anybody everybody your life changes you get clarity if you don't like a person just stay away from them but there's no reason not to be nice to everybody there's no reason for racism there's no reason for jealousy there's no reason for any negatives and when you understand this and become one with everybody you will find something very beautiful that happens to you it changes your life it changes your destiny there is no more anger there is no more anything in your life is negative it's a very beautiful peaceful feeling and you take that feeling even deeper and farther in other parts of your life too that are just so very beautiful

[Changiis07]

Yes I feel like if people would get the time to get to know others despite any differences this world would be a better place. I mean we are all more alike than we think.

[dustybiker]

No. Personal experience leads a person to their own beliefs. Even with a lot of respect you will always clash with someone.

[Anonymous]

I'm not sure what you mean "meant". I will say this self preservation is natural. Most people don't hate other people it's just natural to put your needs ahead of somebody else's. Unless there's a reason not to do so (it's survival instinct). But when we love and care for someone we suspend that instinct. Because thier survival becomes equal or greater than ours to us. Also we are not born to hate. That has to be taught to us or learned. Usually bad experiences, or fear and ignorance of people we do not know or understand.

I like this video it's very truthful and inspiring to what mankind could be if we didn't fear eachother so much. It's also why I say if we ever discover alien life it'll unite humanity. Because we'll have something new to fear and hate.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/q0qD2K2RWkc

[MCheetah]

I do think we are meant to get along with each other. But powerful people don't want us to get along with each other and operate as a collective species, so we get stuff to make us fight like "racism, sexism, classism, phobias, ists, phobes," etc. For most of these, I don't take part in them. But I'll admit I am no "I just love everyone" type. Life is messy, and while I feel like you don't have to like or accept everyone, you should respect everyone as a default. If someone gives you a reason not to respect them, then so be it, but you should start out respecting them as the original opinion.

And damn, 45+ guy, that "I am NOT Black" video is beautiful! I love it!

[crossdressingrihno]

Humans are basically pack animals. In nature they are meant to be in groups and those groups are supposed to support each other and if that means taking out another group they do it. Humanity as a whole was never meant to get along. Humanity was made in such a way that individuals were meant to group together but that’s as far as that goes. The pinnacle of human nature in my eyes is tribalism. The governments we have today transcend that of human nature and that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Honestly it’s time for humanity to evolve anyways.

[-Asca-]

Why shouldn’t this group of individuals be able to include all of humanity?

[crossdressingrihno]

OK let me ask you this.
The world has limited resources there’s not enough food and water for everyone.
How are you going to prioritize giving out resources?

Now here’s a few ideas you can give your own idea but here’s a few ideas on how you could do it

First you could prioritize the people closest to you to ensure their survival

Second you could give it to everybody which in that case people were just starve to death because there’s not enough food and water to feed everyone

And third is that you hoard It all for yourself

Of course there’s other options you can think of your not limited to just these three options but how would you deal with that situation?

[crossdressingrihno]

Sooo when your ready I’d like to hear your response

[-Asca-]

There is in fact enough food for everyone, the world currently produces enough food to feed 10 billion people and just like clean water it would definitely be possible to ensure that everybody on earth gets enough of both, but unfortunately under our current economic system getting food to reach starving people is only considered worthwhile if it is financially profitable. It‘s definitely possible, the problem is a lack of (political) will to allocate resources accordingly. We knowingly let people starve or die of other preventable deaths because our economy is based on selfishness rather than solidarity and saving the lives of poor people isn‘t a good way to make money.

[crossdressingrihno]

It’s called an analogy 🤦‍♂️

[crossdressingrihno]

The point I was making is there’s a lot of things people need and a lot of things society needs to progress and some of those things a lot of those things actually are finite they are not an infinite resource you cannot just go plant precious metals you can’t really have a hydrogen tree Or a uranium flower or how about an iron bush

Factors there’s a lot of things different groups of people need those things are limited sometimes and you can’t just give it out to everybody so you don’t have to pick and choose but not everybody’s going to agree with you because there’s gonna be people who get shafted in the deal no matter how you look at it and so they’re going to separate into groups and in those groups they’re going to go fight over the thing and then oh my god you’re making a country it’s almost like countries are formed because a group of people aren’t getting the things that they need to so they start their own separate group and then gain power through violence or other hostile methods to obtain the things that they require so that way they don’t die

[Keepitanomonous]

Talking scientifically. We wouldn't be a society now if we werent meant to get along. As social creatures we require help from other humans and their company. The most comfortable environment for most people is in some sort of society so it would make sense that they were meant to be together. Although chaos and conflict is the same amount of natural

[ElementoP]

People need each other, because inside you're all a bunch of lonely stupid drones with nothing but a bland and painful life that you drag along like a ball and chain until you finally die a meaningless death, leaving nothing to remember you by but a worn and desecrated grave stone

[Brandi555]

I put C because I don’t think we’re meant ti get along. Like animals get along with other animals as long as it’s the same. Like you don’t see squirrels fighting or arguing. Lol. But squirrels don’t have opinions on things either. Lol

[Bluemax]

Generally, yes. We are a social/cooperative species.

[TitsMcGee16]

It depends. Among your own people that look like you, yes. But if you import a couple of thousand non-whites into a village of like 500 whites, not really. That won't work. And if you do that on the scale of the country, you're just a NWO psychopathic Dictator.

[JaxiCats]

No at least not 100% of the time and honestly it’s a good thing otherwise everyone would be to friendly when it comes to survival like finding food and such

[TwinFace]

Yes and no cuz everyone is diff no matter who they are

[Avicenna]

To some extent, yes, since humans are social animals. We couldn't be if we couldn't get along with each other at all.

[Smoothing]

Yes, human beings are meant to get along with others but that doesn't mean ut us always an easy thing to do.

[-Asca-]

Yes. We are definitely capable of getting along with (some) others. Not getting along with others serves no purpose and just causes problems for everyone. So it really only makes sense for us to get along with others.

[NathanDavis]

I don't know if I was meant to or not... but I do get along very well with many other

[GoodGuyBreakingBad]

It's hard to get along with all people cause some just don't want to mend with us and work things out between us they are argumentative

[EmmaMary]

Surely that has always been the general idea.

[Staximus]

Yes, that's how our species evolved and didn't become extinct. Packs of wild animals turned into tribes of people. We worked together to survive like a pack of wolves.

[Chazmatazz269]

We are intrinsically social creatures, but we’re not meant to get along with everyone.

[exitseven]

Humans are social animals. They have a natural tendency to travel in packs.

[ArtemisSilver]

Most of the time yes, although conflict is also part of human nature.