Is it human nature to be critical of eachother?

I would think it is good to receive feedback, any feedback will do, especially constructive ones as it helps one and another to improve. It might be human nature but I think not everyone is such. There are some who are plain lazy to move even a step forward. There are some who are easily contented and do not strive to seek perfection. There are some who are by nature critical and seek to give feedback even when not requested.

It must be. I have encountered this a lot since my mother has been sick. It can make me so angry to know what I've tried to do to get my mother some help for her mental illness and have someone say "well you should have done this". Mind you, when I ask an opinion no one has one. My husband is the worst. I called the hospital the other night about Mom and the nurse talked to me like I was an idiot saying "well you're just going to have to make your mom go to the hospital". I had already been and they would not admit her because she refused to get out of the car. Then she suggested something else that I had just told her we already tried. Sometimes I feel like just giving up. Nothing is going to please some people.

i wouldn't say that it is human nature... but i will say that it is the sinful nature that resides in every human being to always blame others, seek other people's fault and seek perfection...

OH not reall I wouldnt go to my sis house and tell her anything about what I dont care about for thats they way they designed it and for them it works and if people dont like what I do to mine they done have to come look!

It is human tendency to learn what have he has learnt so far. It is good and best thing in human nature when we think it is the perfect but our perception and criteria for looking this matter is based on up to that situation. We are to improve those mistakes which we have not faced and want to face.

God morning miamilady, I think that people are in generally speaking critical. But we always hear that we should be critical in things we hear, se and read son on. Of course we get critical, but how we express our self are the main thing. You can be critical to someone, but when you tell her or him that you do not have the same opponion, or do not like what he och she say or do, it is important to think about how you express it so you want sound like your know the best, or seems to be selfcentred. Everyone have the right to their oppinion so we have to listend, pay attantion and appriciat to others feelings.

I think we all do it, in spite of our best intentions to be nice lol. I also think it is partly a survival instinct. How many times does somebody who seems too good to be true turn out to be rather un-good! We can also stop harm befalling our loved ones by noticing things they have missed, so it can be a good thing. As to the hyper critical ones who burst every bubble, blunt their pin by imagining what they will find fault with and give yourself points for every one you get right. Petty but works for me :-)

I think we seek perfection to a fault!! Pun intended!LOL...but when it comes to others helping or giving their advice, I think we'll always be doing something wrong or a little off in their eyes, and that's just the way it is,they mean well but it's their baggage-filter that they're seeing through and it'll never match ours.So,in that kind of situation, I listen politely then do whatever the hell i want when they leave,lol. "you can't please everyone,so ya got to please yourself." --Ricky nelson said it best!

yeah its common human nature everyone supports his own theories and his wn independant way of thinking, take idea of mylot itself, many persons i met were critics

Miami,First of all consider the source for each individual incident.A decorator on the one hand has experience in the field and knows what to look for, how to balance things,that's what they were trained to do..critique. If your referring to family or friends simply realize that their looking at a particular subject or situation through their own eyes,what fits for them,how they envision a particular scenario. Your best interest may or may not be on their mind. Dig deeper into their criticism and ask for an explaination to determine who's interest is at heart. I think it is human nature to want to perfect our own environment.

If you are speaking about your family doing this then I would have to say it is normal....annoying at times, but normal. Family always wants you to be the best and sometimes that requires pointing out your shortcomings. Family can be annoying in this respect, but they feel they are helping you. For anyone else, if they are less than the best of friends then they should keep their petty criticisms to themselves. Criticism is fine, but it needs to come from a good authority or it carrys no meaning.

God has given us special intellect and free will to improve ourselves, so we not only criticize others but also find faults within ourselves to improve upon that.

you are absolutely right when you say "someone will always come in and point out what was missed or what needs to be improved"! this is something that most people do as a torture i guess! there are such people that can not stop themselves from expressing their opposite ideas in EVERYTHING you do. but i really think that it is a disease instead of something we have in our nature. and the reason of being involved to everything is not to seek perfection in my opinion. the reason is that those people always believe that their way is the only way, their ideas are the true ones and their opinions are the right ones. they always want to take care of the problems in their own way. fine with their own lives, but they become a natural torture when they try to make you embrace the same. thanks for the discussion, i think i was a little full about it.

I think it is a trait in certain people to be critical but I wouldn't say it extends to everyone. My sister is always quick to pick fault with things but that's just her really. I prefer to be a little more tactful and try to find a positive to things. My partner on the other hand is very quick to point out faults in things he has done which can be just as irritating. I think that we generally have a fixed idea of how things should be done and what we expect from others so I guess it is easy to be critical when things don't live up to these expectations.

Unfortunately, I would have to say it is in human nature to be critical of others. One, it's always easier to put others down than it is to lift others up. Look at our industrialized society, in school, you're put down for being different, failed if you don't learn material in the same way as others, and ostracized from every group if you don't fit their norm. Our job application process discriminates, and not just on matters of race, gender, orientation, but also in cases of past arrests, holes in resume`, lack of experience. The worst part is that our looking down on people creates a kind of self-fulfilling prophecy where they will think they are the person they are treated as.

I don't know if everyone is like that, but I know a lot of people are. I get so tired of hearing unwanted advice from people about things that are really none of their business to start with. It's one thing when I ask for advice, but quite another when they just tell me I'm doing something wrong, when I don't care how they feel. I didn't notice it as much before I had my son, but now it seems like everything I do, someone says I'm wrong. I think everyone has their own way of doing things, and if that's not the way that someone else does it, they feel like it's not the right way. I know sometimes I am guilty of this, but I try NOT to point it out to people, because I know if they wanted my opinion, they would ask for it.

I think wanting to be critical is a part of the sin nature. The Bible says that God is the only just judge and since known of us is perfect, we have no right to be critical of others.

There are times that we, ourselves can provide evidences that we are a critic whether be good or bad. We see others imperfections, or we always has a say on a certain things even if it is almost perfectly done, may it be a constructive or destructive. At work you're always heard complaints of so and so to this so and so. This situations seems already normal to everyday living.

I think it is in our human nature because we're always trying to better ourselves and look at everyone else's imperfections to make us look good. It's sad that we do it, but we do.

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