Ive noticed a lot of people also stretch the immediacy of their position into an example of the whole.
This is quite interesting to see and it opens up an entire cavalcade of questions concerning how an individual perceives the world based on their current state of being.
It is obvious then that an individual happy and contented in their current life is more likely to overestimate the state of the world around them just as one who is currently inhabiting a difficult and strenuous existence is likely to understate it. Of course this is nothing new, in fact it is the most basic example of pessimism and optimism that I am outlining.
But the point is to highlight the importance of the middle ground. To try and be as fair and balanced as one can when considering the evidence displayed for you. It is impossible to be completely neutral or balanced of course and I wouldn't be so arrogant or naive as to pretend otherwise.
For me it is an somewhat complex and hard to describe idea that I use to concern the world and it's benefits/ills. There is always a counterbalance stemming from inside humanities minds which battles with itself endlessly.
In some areas this war is tipped more one way or the other and this comes from any number of factors, economical, social, physical, metaphysical and even spiritual...etc...
Although not all of these factors need be in balance for the well-being of a particular community. There are people who live on the fringes of commonly accepted boundaries of society and even those without, who live full and prosperous lives, regardless of affluence or status.
But then of course there are those in the most destitute of positions, often even with the creature comforts many of us take for granted. And then there are many others without anything. But most problems stem somewhat from within and without and it can be hard to distinguish the two.
This is such a cliche and simple concept of course, but so very hard to communicate into an understandable manner. Essentially, it is how we approach the obstacles in our lives that defines the situations we find ourselves in. Not to mention a willful consideration towards others, rather than a blind eye.
Either a matter of physical needs, such as basic needs, food, water, clothes, a home to call ones own, somewhat protected from disease and oppressive regimes. Or it is a need of self examination, to look at what you are doing yourself as an individual and to judge yourself as you would judge others.
Easy for me to preach this though, after all, what have I done lately?
In any case a human world would never be a perfect one. We need to tip the balance in favour of changing the cruelties we can change and accepting the imperfections we cannot.