Why Are People So Nasty?

Hinzugefügt: 2026-05-26

[00:00:00]It happens pretty much all the time. A small jabbing comment, a joke at our expense amidst a group of old friends, a line of sarcasm, a sneering assessment, a provocative comment on the internet.

[00:00:11]These things hurt a lot, more than we're ever allowed to really admit. In the privacy of our minds, we search for explanations, but anything satisfying and soothing is usually hard to come by.

[00:00:22]We're just left to puzzle at the casual inhumanity that circulates all around us and suspect that perhaps it's we who are somewhere deep down to blame for falling victim to it. Here is what we should actually think. A truth as basic as it is inviolable. Other people have been nasty because they are in pain. The only reason they have hurt us is because they are somewhere deep inside hurting themselves. However virile and robust they may appear, their actions are all the evidence we need that they cannot in truth be in a good place. No one solid would ever need to do this.