Why do people care what other people do?

Why do you care about these nosey people?

Made this after seeing a few comments in threads. Perticularly along the lines of stay at home mums are lazy (even when she's supporting herself/wealthy enough not to work and not on benefits), vegetarians are stupid (wow, I don't even), people who dress as goths are attention seekers (what are we, 12?), girls who don't shave are "gross"... and it got me thinking...why do people care what other people do if it doesn't affect them? As long as they're not involving me or hurting anyone, I don't give a toss what people want to do

I'm genuinely curious

Why do you care about these nosey people?

Personal value systems. Desire to conform. Fear of other in particular, since Other is a threat to your ego and one's understanding of oneself. To encounter the Other and embrace the unknown is to admit one's own vulnerability, the fragility of what were once concrete beliefs formulating comprehension, and the potential insignificance of the I in a sea of not-I.

Basically, people are ********s. You can't just be realising this now surely

Sometimes individual choices do affect the wider economy & society negatively but most of the time its just people wanting others to conform to their way of thinking. e.g. its fair to be anti-smoker around smokers because they are negatively impacting society

I find it very strange too. I really could not care less what people do if it doesn't affect me, but it seems a significant number of people are stuck in the mentality of an immature kid. Very frustrating. I wonder if you asked one of these people why they felt that way about X, what they would say, if they would even have a response?

Made this after seeing a few comments in threads. Perticularly along the lines of stay at home mums are lazy (even when she's supporting herself/wealthy enough not to work and not on benefits), vegetarians are stupid (wow, I don't even), people who dress as goths are attention seekers (what are we, 12?), girls who don't shave are "gross"... and it got me thinking...why do people care what other people do if it doesn't affect them? As long as they're not involving me or hurting anyone, I don't give a toss what people want to do

I'm genuinely curious

Sometimes individual choices do affect the wider economy & society negatively but most of the time its just people wanting others to conform to their way of thinking. e.g. its fair to be anti-smoker around smokers because they are negatively impacting society

I think I can speak for the vegetarianism one as a recent convert.

People feel the need to justify themselves by attacking vegetarians as they feel threatened by the fact vegetarians are 'strong enough' to take a very moral life choice which they themselves are unwilling to do. It threatens them as they feel like vegetarians see themselves as/are seen as morally superior.

They feel the need to justify their life choices in the face of that and for many people it means attacking that lifestyle.

We inhabit many irrational behaviours, that being one of them, it's unlikely your immune to it. If you think carefully, you have probably been guilty of it in the past at some point.

Response: Conjecture, I don't care. Debunked.