Understanding humanity
By zevi770 · December 1, 2011
What’s up with people?
You know the saying “I love people, its humanity I can’t stand!”
Einstein writes how – one of the things he was most concerned about was the ability of weapons of mass destruction to be used by criminals and criminal Governments, as he said “technology in the hands of a psychopath is liking giving an axe murderer an axe” – so he mentioned this to a friend whom I think was a big philosopher saying how destructive WMDs could be, so the friend replied “would it be so bad …”
Einstein deduced from this, a fundamental self-loathing, i.e. a perspective that humanity has gone evil and hence not such a negative view to its destruction.
Einstein of course being a Jew found such a thinking, abhorrent and sad.
So what’s the truth?
The truth is, that all emotions as the Alteh Rebbe teaches us, are either loves or fears that we have.
In other words, a child who is loved, loves humans, a child whom like the Germans and Arabs is hated (for the other name for harsh discipline is revenge for the discipline you received, which is the typical human response i.e. Give to others, what was given to you) actually develops a hatred towards humanity.