Have you lost your faith in humanity?

[Swaki]

i haven't lost it yet, i see hope everyday while in class.

well thats bs, i see the very worst of the human race when in class, but i have yet to lose it completely.

 

[SimuLord]

I lost my faith in humanity on the Internet. Between win-at-all-costs cheaters in online games, 4chan, and the political "debates" that turn into single-digit IQ "talking point" shouting matches, I tend to become convinced that every man, woman, and child in the world is a drooling idiot.

Then I close Firefox and go outside.

The transformation is night-and-day. From the hardworking Middle Eastern convenience store owner (a real-life Apu, in fact) who was absolutely beaming when he got his US citizenship on the Fourth of July to the friendly Mormon family my wife and I have barbecues with to the honest people from all walks of life I encounter every day, I think humanity's going to do just fine. People I've worked with have been generally decent, honest folks, and when I went back to college and found the intellectual discourse to be the biggest breath of fresh air I'd gotten in years...

Lowtax is right. The Internet makes you stupid.

and with that in mind, I'm going to go play Crusader Kings.

 

[BlackJack47]

Its rare I find people who aren't complete jerks in life, so far i have found 4 people to be genuinely nice people...out of a population of over 7-billion humans on this Earth.

But my list goes on and so do i, if i let people like the people that upset you get me down. I'll be living this life with too much in regret, anger and bitterness.

 

[leviathanmisha]

I don't get this "faith in humanity" thing. You mean, like expecting something from "humanity" and then you either think they can handle it or you think they can't? I don't expect anything much of people. People are made of persons and persons are all trapped inside their own heads:

I know there are starving, sick, desolate children all over the world, but I won't give up my fucking gaming money to help them out. I know the conditions at a lot of chicken farms could make you puke at the sight of them, and yet I insist that my chicken be both plump and affordable. I know my quality of life is amazing, and yet I still hate my position. My mom recently apologized to me, truly upset, because sometimes, sometimes she and my father fought where we could hear them. Oh my god.

Anyone familiar with John Dies at the End will know what I'm talking about up there, about the horrors of humanity. If I were an English major, the rest of you would, too.

Sucky but true: The bad things in life make the good things better.
Hamlet: "I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams."
Now I'm talking about perspective.

To crappily sum it up:
I've known really amazing people, awful people, people who are just there. There's no sense taking personal experiences or any one occurence, pointing to it and saying "That, right there, proves that we are all horrible as a collective".

Well, everyone expects something out of the world in the beginning, but time just slowly wears that away. So I guess that is the so-called "faith"

 

[dekkarax]

If no-one had faith in humanity, no-one would be willing to save it.
That seems just a tad Ironic.

(That's a no, in case you were wondering.)