what makes humans humane to mankind?

Question

what makes humans humane to mankind?

Answer 1

I haven't really spotted too much of that yet.

Maybe I should get out more or stop watching the News!

Answer 2

Unfortunately less and less each day makes us humane. People are now conditioned to look out for number 1 and in extreme cases those who do do things for others end up dead. Mankind is a dying word and unfortunately means little to most nowadays. World peace???

Answer 3

The survival instinct, especially the closer it is to you, ie, your family, commuunity/tribe, country, other nations, the Earth...in that order. The less humane we are is targeted to foreigners and those not a part of the inner circle.

Answer 4

We humans are capable of such beauty and such destruction.



We cannot see that each of us are joined to each other through the fabric of life. Such a loss.



When we realize this, we can begin the process of being humane to one another.

Answer 5

Counter-Question: What makes people be INhumane to other people? Some cruelties I cannot fathom.

Answer 6

free love. conversely, A lack of free love leads to murder, rape, and other forms of cancer in society. Humans and chimps are the only beings that willfully murder and rape each other.

Answer 7

The need for social cohesiveness. We gotta be nice to eachother to exist in groups...

Answer 8

Uh, their humanity?

Answer 9

Laws. But sometimes even that doesn't work.

Answer 10

Very little it would seem

Answer 11

not all of them are