netmouse: (listening)
netmouse ([personal profile] netmouse) wrote2008-04-02 10:44 am

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


True? False?

[identity profile] sleigh.livejournal.com 2008-04-02 04:35 pm (UTC)(link)
False. You can come to understand how someone else thinks, and thus you can come to empathize with them. You can understand why they might act the way they do and believe what they believe as a result.

But that doesn't mean that you like them.