Exactly when did you lose your faith in humanity?

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CupcakeTheDestroyer · Accepted Answer

Maybe in my late teens and early twenties as I became aware of just how terrible a place the world could be. And then in my mid-20’s I got it back as I learned a lot of that was just from an information overload, I was purposely exposing myself to sources of information that thrived off of me experiencing these negative feelings about the world because it was much easier to catch my attention that way. I stopped giving my attention to it and the world started to look a little better, I focused on what I could control rather than lamenting the burden that was the weight of the world as if I was somehow both responsible for everyone else’s actions and my own. I can’t control what other people do or don’t do, what they learn or don’t learn, and it’s not my responsibility to make everyone around me a better person by  my  standards. My goal is to be the best version of myself and hope that it rubs off on people who are receptive to it.

IslaTheWitch · Accepted Answer

when in the children's emergency they brought us a 4 years old beaten girl... she needed weeks to recover, and even after that time, she was covering her face and head with every louder sound...

I was there only 4 months as part of my apprenticeship... but it was enough to lose my faith in humanity... fortunately, I was working in other places and with great people too... they helped me to regain my faith in people...

abc3643 · Accepted Answer

It began in the 1980s but really increased with Trump and especially the past month when it almost seems as if Satan himself is guiding everything because Trump's luck is well beyond believability at this point.

I take solace in the fact that I had no kids. It was the only way I knew to protect them from the coming shitstorm. And now that that shitstorm is on our radar, I feel a bit smug to know that I have been right for about 40 years now. I don't take solace from that though. I have often predicted what was going to happen and then it eventually happens. But 1) almost everything I predict is usually bad and 2) I am powerless to do anything about it.

BetaBucks · Accepted Answer

In my late 20s I found out how much of the country's news was being shielded from the average American. It was disturbing. Both the news I was missing, and the idea of it being hidden from me. Then, I began to question everything I've been led to believe, then I started seeking out alternative views of the world. Then, I realized how much of our view of the world was engrained into us from birth. I became skeptical, then I became cynical. Now I know the world is full of shit, and my peace is just trying to make a small portion of it better.

behnam1999 · Answer

We should never lose faith in humanity. No matter how much evil there is in the world, a greater good is awaiting us at the end. That's what my religion teaches me. Stay with God, do what is right, and don't worry about the rest because God takes care of it.

handsomelad70 · Answer

I haven't, but it was almost on this exact day (perhaps July 16 or 17, as I was moving to Windsor's then-new West Side projects July 15,1967,57 years ago today) that my father, who met Babe Ruth in 1925 ( Dad wasn't quite 12), told me that Ruth had three STDs, NOT a hot dogs-and beer-induced stomach ache. Even at 14, I thought,"If the Babe Ruth story is BS, how many other things fit that description?" Thus, I rarely take anything at face value and attempt to verify anything I hear which is considered a commonly-held belief.

dustybiker2 · Answer

Losing faith means you don't think people can change. Spontaneous and significant events in a persons life can change anyone.

Juxtapose · Answer

Think of the average person and remember that half of the population is dumber. How can you have faith in that? Our species is going to become extinct.

Anonymous · Answer

Only temporary. When you come to the understanding that humans are inherently selfish and self involved, not the devil. You gain a new appreciation for why people act the way they do. I don't expect loyalty out of virtually anyone. When you wake up one day and accept this fact people's actions do not upset you. Because you realize, they're just pursuing thier own interests. It isn't personal.

sawno · Answer

During the lockdowns when they didn't stand up against tyranny. I now rather rely on the people who did.

BCRanger10 · Answer

I don't know if I ever truly have. I've made plenty of jokes and sarcastic comments, but I've never just given up.

Unit1 · Answer

I never had it. It didn't help to encounter more and more individuals, that are only out there for themselves and use who can still be used and bully who can still be bullied.

And then we wonder how loneliness is a serious epidemic.

FreyaRed · Answer

7 or 8 as I started to analyze and found lot of hypocrisy in behavior of others. Humans are emotionally still not more developed than animals

NathanDavis · Answer

when Nightwish said they didn't need Tarja at all...

SeriouslyNotSerious · Answer

After pandemic. People were more controlled by social media, aka the "Matrix".

Ms_Facesitter · Answer

It's still there. But just like believing in the good in people, I also believe in the absolutely horrendous things people can do to one another.

Kingofkings1992 · Answer

Early adulthood. Right around your age. I figured out very quickly that this world and our species are rotten.

DishLady · Answer

It’s still alive and kicking, but perhaps refitted to the frame of my life experience.

ForevrLonely29 · Answer

I have lost my faith in humanity when Obama was elected in 2008. I was in the 8th grade.

Xawyx · Answer

Several years ago (partially) A few years ago (almost completely)

Ladsin2 · Answer

Somewhere between D&E. I presume people are what they are

SkatPak392 · Answer

I lost my faith in humanity at 7 when the abuse began after being adopted

normalice · Answer

I never lost faith but have had to calibrate it.

dolemite58 · Answer

I think around 2015ish everything just started going to shit in numerous aspects

236color · Answer

November 5, 2024

Account · Answer

I honestly can't recall.

TommyMountainFigure · Answer

I haven't. Just some sections of it!

HalalCabello · Answer

When all the wars happened...

noohair · Answer

Humans, by nature are selfish and greedy.

summiter · Answer

In 2016 when Trump got elected

OhLongJohnsoning · Answer

I wasn't aware i did

Anonymous · Answer

When the millennials started coming of age

avery58 · Answer

Years ago

Agape93 · Answer

I never had it

CieloAzul · Answer

Several time now.

LiamJHayden · Answer

I haven't.

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