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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (11182)	4/13/2001 10:33:34 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

One can have sympathy without injecting understanding. I had sympathy for our hamster, but I can't hope to see the world through hamster eyes. I can imagine how it might be, but I fear the likelihood of my being right is not great. We both were alive, the hamster died, I will die, but our whole experience of reality was quite different. Same with other people, who appear to me to be totally irrational. I can try to imagine what they are thinking, but for me to assume I know what they are thinking would, imo, be hubris- hubris of the same sort I find when people on SI claim to know what I am thinking, when it is quite obvious to me they do not. Seeing other creatures that seem to be interpreting the world completely differently passes a mere different "choice." They are experiencing a different reality than I am, whether they created it themselves or whether it exists and I cannot see it. To call it choice is to trivialize a huge gulf.