#2 Willem Arondéus Was A Homosexual Dutch Artist Who Bombed The Amsterdam Public Records Office In Ww2 To Hinder The Nazi Effort To Identify Dutch Jews
r/HumansAreMetal has 1.5 million members, and it's easy to understand why.
When we hear about bad things happening, especially when many lose their lives at the hands of a few, we need to remind ourselves that people can be good.
"We all have an innate capacity for goodness—and this is the hope for the human race as well as the hope for each individual person in the journey of life," clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst Jennifer Kunst, Ph.D., writes.
"Side by side with our destructive capacity is our constructive capacity—our capacity to do good and to be good, our impulses to love, to care, to help, to heal."
#3 Stumbled Upon This Pic And Thought The Shirt Was Just A Vulgar Cry For Attention
#4 This Legend Called Marcin Took Serious Burns To His Hands To Save Animals At A Zoo
#5 Syrian Archaeologist Khaled Al Asaad Who Devoted His Life To The Excavation And Restoration Of Palmyra, A Unesco World Heritage Site. He Was Beheaded By Isis After Refusing To Disclose The Location Of Ancient Artifacts, Despite A Month Of Torture. He Died A Hero Of Heritage Protection
According to Kunst, the way to make the most of your life is to harness this orientation toward goodness so that it has more and more influence over your personality.
"In the context of psychotherapy, we might even say that it is the aim of the psychoanalysis to strengthen each patient's good, constructive capacities so that they can be used productively to manage the destructive elements."
However, Kunst believes that at the same time, it is essential to acknowledge and own the destructive capacities because "it is only when there is a bridge between love and hate that humility, authentic guilt, and forgiveness can make way for healing and restoration."
#8 Hedy Lamarr Escaped From Her Nazi Husband By Disguising Herself As Her Own Maid, Became A Top Actress In Hollywood, Then Co-Developed A Radio Guidance System For Allied Torpedoes- The Principles Of Which Are Incorporated Into Today's Bluetooth And Gps Technology
#9 Dashrath Manjhi's Wife Died By Falling From A Mountain, The Same Mountain Blocked Easy Access To A Nearby Hospital. Over 22yrs He Carved A Path Through A Mountain Path With Only A Chisel & Hammer Reducing The Journey To The Hospital From 22km To 1km
A few years ago, contact lens company 1-800-Contacts got curious about how we see each other, and sent a survey to more than 1,000 Americans for insights into the classic questions, such as 'Do you think people are inherently good? and 'Are we rotten?' and the results suggest that we might be alright after all.
#11 Never Forget Witold Pilecki The Man Who Fought In The Polish Resistance, Willingly Entered Auschwitz Under A Fake Name To Figure Out What Happened In There, Organised Resistance Within Auschwitz, Broke Out And Continued To Fight The Nazis And Later The Soviets In Poland
Despite the turmoil around us, 83 percent of the respondents think that people are fundamentally good.
Baby boomers are the most likely to hold this belief (91 percent) compared to Generation X (84 percent), Millennials (81 percent) and Generation Z (75 percent).
This might tie to life experience, which can reassure you that people can unify and overcome.
#15 Miriam Rodriguez Hunted Down 10 Of Her 20-Year-Old Daughter's Kidnappers, Stalking Them One By One Across Mexico Until They Were Either Dead Or In Prison Much Like Liam Neeson's Character In The 2008 Film, Miriam Rodriguez From Mexico Used Guns, Fake Ids And Even Disguises To Hunt Down The Killers
#16 On February 8th 1943, Nazi's Hung 17 Year Old Yugoslav Radić. When They Asked Her The Names Of Her Companions, She Replied: "You Will Know Them When They Come To Avenge Me.”
#17 A Member Of The Harlem Hellfighters (369th Infantry Regiment) Poses For The Camera While Holding A Dog That He Saved During The First World War Of 1918
Of those surveyed, 80 percent feel that people have a responsibility to help others with time and effort, while 72 believe that people should help financially.
The same generational disparity seen for the fundamental belief in human goodness shows up here too, as 94 percent of Boomers say they've given to a charity, for example, while just 69 percent of Generation Z claim they have.
#18 The Daughter Of Minoo Majidi--A Mother Of Two Who Was Killed By The Iranian Regime While Protesting For Mahsa Amini--Stands At Her Mother's Gravesite. She Is Defiantly Unveiled, And In Her Left Hand She Holds The Hair She Cut From Her Head
#19 Meet Abdel Kader Haidara, The Man Who Risked His Life To Save More Than 350,000 Ancient Manuscripts From Timbuktu From Being Destroyed By Al-Qaeda
