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] dd-b.livejournal.com 2008-04-02 04:53 pm (UTC)(link)
As opposed to Valentine Michael Smith's view, in which coming to fully understand somebody is the necessary precondition for hating them.

[identity profile] grimfaire.livejournal.com 2008-04-02 05:51 pm (UTC)(link)
It's the same thing. You can't do either until you know them.