Perhaps one of the aspects of the point of view I am putting forward is a sort of ‘faith in humankind,’ or if not faith in ‘humankind,’ then it is perhaps a determination to have a positive regard for humankind. A negative conception of humankind is, ultimately, unsound.

I do not use the word ‘cynical’, because the authors of the dictionary I have, defined it, in the first entry for the word, as “ distrusting or disparaging the motives or sincerity of others,” in the second entry as, “showing contempt for accepted standards of honesty or morality, especially by actions that exploit the scruples of others”, and in the last entry as “bitterly or sneeringly distrustful, contemptuous, or pessimistic.”

The point I seem to be trying to make is a renunciation of what has been my own tendency towards deeming that the bad outweighs the good in terms of my social ties; and, it follows, against what has been my own inclination to socially withdraw, in one form or another, due to thinking that the possible rewards of establishing ties with people are not worth the potential for various forms of pain for myself.

I state that a negative conception of humankind does not stand to reason based on this thought: that various features of the actions of humankind which may disgust a person–essentially, the suffering we inflict upon one another and other sentient beings– disgusts a person in the first place because he or she has some type of fondness for at least one sentient being, perhaps herself or himself, in addition to some of her or his loved ones. In other words, when someone tells me that she or he is disgusted with human beings because of how we betray each other and otherwise mistreat one another, I ask the person whether he or she would be upset about this in the first place if he or she didn’t care about the well-being of at least some people.

In terms of a person having a negative perspective on humankind, it seems that the focus of that disgust involves events beyond that person’s immediate social circle, so to speak; therefore, a person who has become negative in her or his view of humankind, likely, is thinking about issues on a somewhat large scale.

My deceased father comes to mind as an example. During many conversations, he had expressed the idea that humankind is overall something negative. My father had referred to humankind as the most destructive animal on the planet, and he often quoted Mark Twain as having said that “man is the only animal that blushes and the only animal that has a reason to.”

Yet my father had at least some relations with loved ones that he seemed to cherish, and, and I recall, he was a generally friendly person to most of the people he encountered publicly. So, his negative ideas about the human race seemed to apply, somehow, beyond his daily experience.

Guessing, I would venture that my father’s negative perspective on the human race in general came from his interpretation of what he read in news accounts and what he read in historical accounts. Based on what I know, most of the examples of ‘man’s inhumanity to man’ that he mentally processed involved people he himself did not know personally. Instead, my father identified with and empathized, at least on some level, with people he had never met. In other words, his general idea about the flawed nature of humankind stemmed from his concern for, perhaps paradoxically, the well-being of human beings in general, not just loved ones or people who had encountered face to face.
This means that, such a person with a negative view has it because of having concern, not only for those in his or her immediate circle, so to speak, but also has concern for human and perhaps non- human sentient beings in general.

In other words, it is the same species with the same ‘nature’ that is both inflicting the suffering and being on the receiving end of it, so to speak, so how can a person have disgust for the person, while also being upset about the fact that that person is suffering? This is why I state that having a negative view of humankind is, ultimately, a self-contradictory perspective.
Perhaps the flaw that a person with a negative view of humankind beholds regards the fact that human beings, and also other sentient beings, do not have the capacity to attend to all the contingencies of our existence in such a manner that we refrain from causing there to be more suffering. I say more suffering because factors unrelated to being caused by human beings or other sentient beings may lead to some form of suffering for some form of sentient being

It may be the case that a person has a negative view of humankind, in light of being aware of the ways in which human beings inflict suffering upon human beings and upon other sentient beings. Perhaps such a person is aware that non-human factors cause suffering also, but he or she may deem that non-human sentient beings don’t know better, due to not knowing ‘right from wrong’.
For lack of a better way of expressing this , I imagine, sort of as a daydream, some new form of human being or some other type of sentient being, with even greater ‘awareness’ than human beings.