Why does everyone seem to want to tear each other down all the time?

People have grown past the old rule of "If you can't think of something nice to say, then don't say anything at all". We are now "enlightened" and feel everyone is entitled to our opinion. And our opinions matter because people have such over inflated egos and feel, OF COURSE, others NEED to know.

Pride is a beast that is ever growing in all of us. It can never be satisfied. As it grows inside, and little by little, devours our morality, our humanity, we find ourselves doing things like that.

Often because everyone is struggling with something. It's often a way of making themselves feel better.

Sometimes people do not know how to process their emotions, and instead feel the need to project outwards to make themselves feel better. The most important thing you can do is be understanding of other people's situation, and actively encourage others to lift each other up rather than tear them down. We all can accomplish so much more when we work together rather than against one another. When you see others tearing each other down, I encourage you to not participate and instead try to shift the conversation to something more positive, something that will uplift those around you. Being the positive light for just one person can make an enormous impact.

Its a case of jealousy they want to feel better so the only way they think of is to make that person beneath them , They think they have more rights than others and cannot accept that someone is above them. They don't want to damage their pride

I believe that people do this to make themselves feel better but then again no one could truly know considering that we are all different people.

People love to critique and criticize. If they aren't tearing themselves down, they're doing it to someone else.

Some people want to feel better about themselves and think it's right to hurt others. Many people that do this have either been hurt or betrayed

We live not just in a society in which being number one is incredibly important, but also a time in which there is a great deal of uncertainty. The tearing down is part of the process that people who want to achieve the number one status (in just about anything these days) and also retain some degree of certainty about whether they will get to number one in a time of great change. The lack of certainty, and the attendant anxiety, makes people insecure, and tearing down another human is a way to achieve a, albeit temporary, degree of security and therefore certainty. Getting to the next level on the path to being number one has many stages, and so the tearing down continues and repeats at every stage of this quest to be number one.