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What do you think is wrong with the world today?

It seems that people have begun to complain more and more about the lost faith in humanity. What do you think is weakening our ties with our morality and our ties with the rest of the world? What can we do to fix it and why do you think it hasn't been fixed yet?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Parents have stopped teaching their children RESPECT! It is a big joke now, young people today don't think that they have to respect anyone including themselves!

  • 1 decade ago

    Perhaps, greed?

    Plus technology growth is becoming more infinite.

    Human knowledge is overused in the wrong way.

    Lack of respect for other religions, beliefs and cultures that people are keep persuading each other, telling "this is the truth, this is the right one!", "No this one is the truth!" blah blah blah.

    Perhaps we need to have humility before God.

    Or whatever beliefs or religion you're into, always do good things. Not those things that would hurt people around and the mother earth itself.

    We must be good to our children. They are the next generation in the world. Befriend them, let them be open to you about their feelings, thoughts, ideas. Teach them good values. Give enough love, care, attention so they might not be rebellious doing gangs, sex, drugs, alcohols stuff on the streets or anywhere. Know when to punish them, but still show them love.

    Follow rules. Develop self-righteousness. Refrain from doing even the most simplest sins we think it would just be fine if we do it. Have conscience. Have manners. Have descipline. Fight ignorance.

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  • 1 decade ago

    Theres a number of reasons the world is so messed up. I think a big reason kids act like animals nowadays is because they get no discipline. You can't spank your child, yet we got worse than that as kids. I got "the belt" ...shudder. Also, with no God in schools, kids don't even think about religion anymore and try to do good deeds. The Bible used to be read to us in school, but now all that is gone. We might be able to fix America by reinstating these things and perhaps in 10 years, things will start looking better. However, to fix world-wide problems, I am clueless.

  • 1 decade ago

    i feel too many people only care about themselves, i feel

    we need to build stronger family ties, be more tolerant,

    and realize different countries have different cultures

    and views and if we respect other countries views etc..

    it may help build a stronger relationship between america

    and the rest of the world. i think right now we are busy

    with the war on terror, the economy and the sunprime mess

    are reasons that problem has not been fixed yet..

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  • 1 decade ago

    Will is bad people around the streets, drugs, smoking, Global Warming and We could fix it by not using car to go to close markets that's about a few minutes away and we could recycle cans and bottles and stop running the tap and not to throw rubbish on the streets and that's some ideas how to fix up the world and make it mach better and if people could respect each other and we won't have problems like war and junk.

    Will that what I think.

  • There is simply a decline in moral standards and the downward slide continues. There are real consequences to bad behavior! Individuals must choose for themselves to act in a better way. A root cause is the weakening of the family.

  • 1 decade ago

    We complain about the loss of faith in humanity because it seems all our government can do is tell us lies and start wars that don't need to be started. I don't think it has begun to be fixed yet because Bush is still president...but I think Barak Obama will do a damn fine job of getting us straightend out again!

  • 1 decade ago

    It's a problem that concerns all but nobody with the power or money has pay attention to it (at least not the expected) to try to fix it... even the church as community has changed to worst and this causes problems of faith between the comunities.

    This world it's going to have a really bad end and when we finally see it (or our childen), it'll be late...

  • 4 years ago

    incorrect- How the races (ethnicity) are struggling with mutually and are having great race wars. only because of the fact of each thing that has befell, the blacks and mexicans are struggling with against one yet another and ganging up on the white. whilst the different race is attempting to get into it. that is not properly worth it. cool down human beings and quit struggling with hearth with hearth because of the fact if something in this international befell, we might must be good mutually! appropriate- the way we are giving and in a position to stand up for what we've self belief in. maximum folk see a homeless individual and purchase them foodstuff or provide them money. Thats the way it is going to artwork. working mutually!

  • 1 decade ago

    1) Technology and globalization. The better it gets, the more incentive our corporations have to outsource jobs, cut costs, and leave their own country's citizens with fewer opportunities for success.

    2) Invisible government. The public is told one thing, and the governing operates on a completely different level. We're obsessed with our candidates, and all seem to believe that whoever we're voting for can make things better. It never really gets better.

  • 1 decade ago

    Definitely race classification, politics, different currency and the media.

    Should have never classified different races because it states there is a difference enough to seperate from others. Politics, media and different currency just play of that one major mistake.

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