What restores your faith in humanity?

[Housebroken Lunatic]

What makes me happy and cheers me up doesn't restore my faith in humanity.

My lack of faith in humanity is unrelated to the cause of my subjective happy feelings. I can be happy despite being misanthropic.

 

[SkullKing84]

My son gives me hope. And, horror movies always cheer me up.

Edit: I have no to little faith in people i expect the worst... and get surprised when they do a genuinely nice or good thing NOT expecting something in return (can be even something small and petty like" look what i did! I'm an awesome person for doing it ... hey you look what i did" etc)

 

[That_Sneaky_Camper]

Ironically, this narcissistic desire to look past our flaws and revel in the best of mankind instead of actually facing up to our problems and constructively improving ourselves only serves to make me lose more faith in humanity.

Humanity is composed of over 6 billion people, the actions of a few people no matter how good or bad can't add or subtract your faith in the rest of the 6 billion people only in those few select people. Besides humanity as a concept is too broad and impersonal for me to have faith in anyway, I have faith in individual people which is far more relatable and personal a concept to me.

In my own frame of mind topics like these are totally pointless. Besides I have no problem with humanity facing up to its problems, as a Christian the concept of sin doesn't allow me to be easy on human beings for their failings. We are very flawed but there is also a capacity for good that isn't given enough credit.

 

[Crazy]

Lack of idiots.

 

[Lilani]

Going a few days without seeing threads like these

Amen to that.

I mean, I never "lose my faith in humanity," so to speak. You have to be a very petty and overly-dramatic person to despise ALL of humanity because a couple of people did something stupid. People have always done stupid things, and they always will. There's no getting around that. So everyone should just quit overreacting and get on with their lives.

 

[lord.jeff]

I regained my faith in humanity when I realized I wasn't a dumb angsty teen anymore.

 

[gabe12301]

I've never lost it. I've completely re-written my thought process to be positive. (although people think I'm an ass when someone gets hurt or dies.)

 

[RatRace123]

Nothing, because I tend to keep it for longer than a week.

 

[Ace of Spades]

Well, I never lost it, but if I were to do so, spending some time with my girlfriend would do wonders for me.

 

[CaptVickHartnell]

Seeing people my age (early 20s, the core of "Generation Y"), asking for people to make charitable donations instead of giving them a birthday present; fighting against climate change; fighting against government beaurocracy. Overall just the general tendency for my generation to go against the stereotype of us as lazy, apathetic overgrown kids, and actually do something for our future.

 

[mrblakemiller]

Nothing. I never lost mine.

Bingo.

 

[SD-Fiend]

not caring about the bad things others do and deal with my own problems. and I might do something about it if I can maybe help others with ACTUAL problems

 

[A Satanic Panda]

Well I'm human so I probably won't lose my faith in humanity... Kinda like my own species. But as a society? I don't think it's that bad. It works... barely, and I definitely have my complaints but nothing to lose faith over. Individuality? I think a person as apposed to people are a lot better, most of the time...

Spoiler: Oh and some seriously adorable ponies helps too

Spoiler: No really, their REALLY cute

Spoiler: Seriously, you might explode with friendship

Spoiler: I alomost feel ashamed for posting this...

Spoiler: Fine, you get your D'aww for today now

 

[SirAroun]

things like occupy wall street.

 

[Torrasque]

Cat videos, people doing super awesome selfless things, ice cream, and "I beat death" stories.
Also this.

 

[M4t3us]

For it to be restored, I'd have to have had some... at some point... Damn, this was one hard sentence to push out of my brain!

 

[ImperialSunlight]

I never lost my faith in humanity because I never had any. I don't believe the concept of "faith" to be viable. Nor does "faith in humanity" make any sense. But if it means the belief in the tendency for humans to be naturally or in any way morally good, then I never had that either. Morality is merely a construct created by humans and has little meaning outside of human society. Therefore, humans are neither naturally or through experience good or evil.

 

[Lawllerskater]

People who lose faith in humanity are sad, pessimistic assholes who like to complain too much. There is so much good outweighing the bad in the world. Blah blah, people are poor, America and such is rich. We're selfish, blah blah blah. Yeah, that's a miniscule problem when you look at the bigger picture of us actually being able to achieve all that we have right now. People just get upset when others don't have this moral obligation deep down inside of them to help every damn poor person in the world.

SELFISHNESS ISN'T ALWAYS BAD. It's a means to survival.

 

[DkLnBr]

The song "Baba Yatu" (theme to Civilization IV). No matter how cynical i am, i listen to that and think, "Hell ya Humanity!" and start to think about the silver lining instead of the cloud.