Yes, it is not easy to navigate life, no matter where you live or who you are. There are always existential challenges, need to coexist and survive.
Since astute observation of human behavior supports the reality that we are social creatures with a need to belong, be loved, and experience friendship. The bugaboo is to what degree are we willing to compromise self, truth, and justice to achieve acceptance and security?
There are many "games" people engage in to achieve these goals: Charades, masquerades, go along to get along, support hate, invest in suspect ideologies, embed themselves in cult-like religions, but the most incedious is the arena of politics.
"Under every stone is a politician" from one of Aristophanes' plays.
The worst cruelty I have learned has been perpetrated in the name of religion: Wars, inquisitions, ostracism, and even genocide.
Philosophers have written about the condition of humans and their behaviours, but I believe we fail to teach our children the lessons from the past and the wisdom that exists because we repeat the same mistakes humans have always made, even as of this writing.
I am tempted to conclude there is inherent evil in most, if not all, human beings. Some comic twists in this desire to belong to a group.
Laural and Harty had a short about this too.