Why do humans stop being humans? - A Perspective

  

Let us first ask ourselves, what is Humanity?

Humanity, as defined everywhere possible, is a trait found only in human beings which depicts kindness and understanding towards other Humans in this world. It also encompasses the evolved thought process of a human being which enables him/her to think beyond the capability of other organisms and develop good and kind relationships and work towards making this world a better place.

In recent times, we have been hearing about all kinds of inhuman activities taking a toll on other humans (other living beings included as obvious). Through this post, I intend to instantiate or trigger a deep thought process in all my fellow humans and put forth their reasoning behind the never ending surge in the number of issues threatening the existence of humanity, of us!

Now, having understood at a superficial level as to what the term Humanity entails, let's try to begin and understand how difficult or easy it is to display humanity or be a human in real sense.

Does a person's upbringing matter?

According to me, even though it might stand a chance in certain scenarios to be a valid reasoning too, I do not want to think that upbringing in general, plays any role into this. As men and women have been evolving with every generation, it is safe to assume that no loving parents would imbibe any negative qualities into their children and would always want them to choose the eventual and right path in their lives and develop qualities of helping others and avoiding harm. So this point can be discarded and taken out of consideration as far as this post is concerned.

Then, what initiates this and why?

Is it the greed for Power or the insatiable need to outperform over others, or the sense of unhealthy competition, resulting into the irrational behaviors, biased behaviors, internal politics? Are these a subset of the major reasons behind these type of inhuman activities towards other humans? What is it that provokes a rational or simple living person to step out of his/her boundaries and play across to endanger someone else's existence or identity?

AI as a Catalyst!

It is always good for people to have ambitions! Populations are exploding and here's the time when in general, demand is limited and supply tends to be more. Given this situation, let's add on a tadka of technological advancements wherein we now face the threat of AI replacing humans in various areas of work. Imagine the chaos!! It all boils down to business and revenue even if it is useful to some.

A few intellectual humans are striving day and night to build AI models through machine learning and make programs that will improve business performance and reduce cycle time, and reduce the effort that the humans would otherwise have to put into giving the similar output (although, with human errors included). These same inventions or technological advancements that are destined to ease out the work and improve the productivity of humans are all set out to vanish a part of the race completely as the time progresses.

Is there any lookout as to what will happen when the balancing scale inclines towards just one side? It's the onset of devastation! Devastation of rational behaviors, straight forward and right thinking and Humanity! Have we thought about compensating the loss to humans that will be created by this?

As we all know the principle of 'Survival of the Fittest', which has been a real thing till date, will be epitomized in such a way that people will find it difficult to perform with a sense of insecurity which will kick-in into each and every human being. There will be a loss of good thinking process, and people will try to pull others down, claim others' merit, neglect others' work and showcase theirs or use creepy ways to outshine depending upon their scope. The graphs of Humanity with respect to time as well as people will be decreasing exponentially, if not linear.

All said and done, what is the way out?

This is the question we all need to ponder over and answer to the best of our capabilities. Is it right to give up on your self respect, ethics, values, just to survive, just to be a part of the herd, just to run our households?

Can this not be improved without having to play politics, pulling others down, self proclamations? Can this not be turned into a healthy competition in the real authentic sense? Can we not work towards our business goals ethically? If it were to be real, then the humans would definitely strive towards improving their skills, abilities in such a way that they survive. Have we forgotten the main goal of a Human life? The goal that, 'Whatever we do, Humanity should prevail'. Are we working in the right direction mentally, emotionally, spiritually, technologically and physically then?

Think, think and think!

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