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Jul 19, 2015

I cannot pick a specific answer for this question. As much as I believe that humans are very strong-willed and want to tackle many problems, we cannot even tackle relations with different countries of humans. If we take the goal of humanity to be gathering knowledge and learning information, some of us will always be striving for and achieve that. Yet others still do not wish for or do not understand enough to want to make humanity better as a whole. I point out ISIS as one such example. What they try to achieve does not better humanity as a whole.

I lean toward 'yes' because the majority of us, I believe, wish to become better. We wish to learn more. Even if others still are not ready for this yet.

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Sep 28, 2015

Yes.

It is very easy to get angry at people for their mistakes and flaws. But the problem is that no observer can at present, to the best of our knowledge, do that who isn't human.

To not have faith in humanity is ultimately to not have faith in oneself.

We have grown ethically, technologically and socially. The barriers we face are institutional, and we can conquer them. And no person alive is at the limit of their empathy, their hope, their awareness and understanding.

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May 3, 2015

Not really. Humanity doesn't have a clue what it's doing or where it's going or how it's going to get there...

How can someone have "faith" in a group of people who don't have a clue?

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Jun 1, 2015

Humanity was born without a clue of what it's doing or where it's going or how it's going to get there.
But they are trying. They are trying as hard as they can, because even if they have been not one, but several times nearly wiped out, faced bigger threats, forgotten what they had learned and gotten distracted with several shiny things, they still haven't forgotten. They still haven't forgotten what the Champions of the World (Aristotle, Socrates, al-Khwārizmī, Ptolemy, Giordano Bruno, Galileo, Machiavelli, Mendel, Bayes, Dirac, Watson, Wittgenstein, Stuart Mill, Comte, Nietzsche, Hemingway, Dostoyevsky, Feynman, Sagan, Turing, Einstein, Hawking); and that's just off the top of my head) have taught us, even if most of them have been silenced, some longer than others, their teachings remain. Humanity as a whole might look bad enough to be hopeless, but it continuously, somehow, produces people who can not only push themselves far, far ahead of the rest of humanity, but they can actively drag humanity as a whole with them. Each and every one of them is Atlas, lifting mankind upon their gentle shoulders, making sure we don't stay behind, pushing us forward even when we don't deserve it.

All in all, humanity is hopeless, but it is because of all of them, the few i mentioned and the lots and lots i am, unjustly, forgetting about; that humanity is not only something to have faith in, but the only thing we have to put faith into.

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May 4, 2015

You have a fair point, although I disagree. I believe that Humanity, as a whole, knows what we are trying to achieve. The problem is that, everyone has different ideas on how to get there. For example, if you took the American political system and asked a Democrat and a Republican whether or not we should improve American, they would both say yes. However, for example one would say put more power in the government and the other would say put more power in the general public. I do agree that at the moment, humanity is not deserving of faith, but I do think that we are much closer than you think.

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Aug 25, 2015

Why pick "No"? Sure their are bad ppl on the Earth but thats just human nature their are beautiful ppl as well. Be positive!

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Jan 3, 2016

I have no faith in humanity because man is basically evil. I have faith only in God. :)

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