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Try reading more books, eg autobiographies or fiction. Understanding other people’s perspectives is a skill like any other.
by Herring 10mo ago
Try reading more books, eg autobiographies or fiction. Understanding other people’s perspectives is a skill like any other.
- lone-cloud 10mo agoMaybe you should take your own advise and try to understand his perspective.
- gandalfgreybeer 10mo agoUnderstanding a perspective and agreeing with it aren’t the same thing. Herring’s point was about the ‘I don’t see why anyone would need this’ framing, not that the position itself is hard to grasp.
- cromka 10mo agoThis is a logical fallacy like saying one should tolerate the intolerance, because otherwise it's intolerance.
- jfvinueza 10mo ago[flagged]
- cromka 10mo agoStill looking for that microphone you dropped!
- mgaunard 10mo agoTrying to understand everyone is a foolish endeavor, if not outwardly judgemental. What's more valuable is simply accepting that there are others who are different.