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[netmouse]

If you can think as another man thinks, you cannot dislike him.
--The Languages of Pao, by Jack Vance


True? False?

Comments

[grimfaire.livejournal.com]

Ha! Like this is unusual...me being different than the rest.

True!

Put yourself in any person's place. Think like them, listen like them, act like them. You'll come to completely understand them. You may not change your idea on them, they may be a bad person. But you can't really dislike them. In everyone this is a kernal of something good. Even if it is only inside themselves.

What you see on the outside isn't always what is going on inside.

I Agree With Grimfaire

[myrddred1.livejournal.com]

There is an old actor's axiom that you cannot "play" evil or bad--you can only play right. I use three professional actor friends as examples. One lady portrayed a soap opera bitch on a defunct afternoon soap (I promise I won't drop the name. It would only date me further--sigh...)and she always felt that her character wasn't bad--she was merely misunderstood.

FBI profilers have to understand that to think like a perpetrator you have understand where the perpetrator's coming from emotionally.

Do I like him or her? I'm not sure. But understanding the person is a strong step in the right directon.

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

As opposed to Valentine Michael Smith's view, in which coming to fully understand somebody is the necessary precondition for hating them.

[grimfaire.livejournal.com]

It's the same thing. You can't do either until you know them.

[brendand.livejournal.com]

Read the quote again. It doesn't say "understand" anywhere. It says "... you cannot dislike him." I (and I venture to say most of the people who voted false) would agree with you that if you are able to think as someone else does, then you would certainly understand them. That doesn't mean that you would necessarily like them. I would argue that it's unrelated, which makes the statement false.