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3/7/2024

Can you ever truly understand the world from another’s perspective? Why or why not?

Julian Logan

3/7/2024 09:10:16 am

No. In some situations, we can empathize. We can understand what someone else's perspective is. We will never truly view it the way they do, however. Every single person on the planet views things differently. That is why it will always be easier to sympathize. To feel sorry or happy for them, not with them.

Brianna AndersonI

3/7/2024 09:18:15 am

I agree! Great answer!

Sara Chaffin

3/7/2024 09:18:39 am

I like how you said " To feel sorry or happy for them, not with them". It adds more comfort the way it was put. We aren't supposed to go through the same things.

Lilly Cerise

3/7/2024 09:19:54 am

I also think that it is easier to sympathize, and feel a certain way for someone but not feel it with them.

Jade

3/7/2024 09:20:10 am

I agree with this!

Jade

3/7/2024 09:12:03 am

I don't think a person can fully understand another's perspective because everyone experiences things differently. Even if they explain it, it's still hard to understand. You can give sympathy and try to feel how they feel but a person can't fully understand because we all don't think and feel the same way.

Miles

3/7/2024 09:21:08 am

do you think that sympathy can be confused with empathy?

Jade

3/7/2024 09:30:21 am

Most definitely. It gets confused all the time

Brianna Anderson

3/7/2024 09:12:25 am

I believe you can never FULLY understand someones perspective. But, I do believe you can put yourself in someone else's shoes and try your best to imagine what they are going through/thinking. This is hard though because since everyone has a different thought process you will never be able to understand using their thought process.

Lucile

3/7/2024 09:17:41 am

I agree, a big part of never fully being able to understand people is the fact that you don't think like them.

Alyssa

3/7/2024 09:14:15 am

No, I personally think that no matter how close or similar a person's perspective is to anothers, they are different in a way. It may be a small tiny detail that changes it. I think you could slightly grasp a person's perspective, but not truly understand.

Lucile

3/7/2024 09:16:24 am

I agree. You can see their perspective but you'll never fully understand.

Miles

3/7/2024 09:18:26 am

No one can really understand what people are going through.

Lilly Cerise

3/7/2024 09:18:33 am

I agree with this. You won't be able to fully understand someone's experiences.

Jade

3/7/2024 09:21:19 am

Very true, even the slightest detail can change the entire story.

Lisa Mualem

3/7/2024 09:15:28 am

I don't think we can truly understand the world through somebody else. They can tell us everything, even the most useless details but it will still be different in our minds because we all process things differently. The only way to truly know the world through someone else is to be them.

Brianna Anderson

3/7/2024 09:19:11 am

Great way to explain it!

Alyssa

3/7/2024 09:20:19 am

I agree with you.

Lucile

3/7/2024 09:15:34 am

No, it is impossible to fully understand a person because in order to do so, you would have to be them. You would have to go through every last experience that they have had and think exactly the way that they think. You can have empathy and sympathy but you will never be able to fully understand anyone besides yourself. In vise savers, no one will ever truley understand you.

Alyssa

3/7/2024 09:19:35 am

I agree, impossible really sums it up.

Autumn Schewe

3/7/2024 09:15:43 am

I feel like we can't ever truly see the world from anyone else's perspective because everyone was made to only know life's situations from their person's perspective. Everyone that is alive right now has a different outlook on things and different ways of seeing the world. The closest we can come to being in someone else's shoes is if we empathize. Having empathy for people helps us better understand how someone is feeling and what they're going through. Nobody will truly feel the pain or the happiness of another person.

Miles

3/7/2024 09:16:19 am

I don't think you can understand fully someone else's world. In order to understand, you must have some sort of knowledge of what the living conditions are like, maybe even live in their living conditions. But people can easily sympathize, maybe not really understand, but feel bad for them.

Sara Chaffin

3/7/2024 09:16:34 am

No, but you can try. Everyone sees the world very differently. No one sees it the same way. It's just like how we will never see the exact thing someone sees through thier eyes. My eyes see everything in a blur. Other people can see it nice and clear. No matter how hard we try to see someone elses perspective, we will always fail tying to make it exact. I don't think that's bad, but it is trialing trying to relate to others. No, I don't think we can truly understand someones perspective about the world.

Autumn Schewe

3/7/2024 09:20:25 am

I love the use of your analogy to have eye problems to relate to not seeing something the same as somebody else.

Lilly Cerise

3/7/2024 09:16:34 am

I don't think that you can ever truly understand what someone is going through. Even if you hear stories from that person, or you try and relate some of your past experiences with their experiences, everybody translates things differently and see things very differently and uniquely. I think you can empathize with them, or feel bad for them, but you won't be able to share that experience with them.

Sara Chaffin

3/7/2024 09:20:04 am

I totally agree that we won't be able to share that experience with them.

Hudson Bertram

3/7/2024 09:19:56 am

I believe that you can have a pretty good idea on what someones perspective is, but never a complete idea. Perspectives are built off lifetimes. Different childhood happenings greatly affect ones view and almost entirely construct who they are. That being said a lot of situations in which a very persuasive perspective over a large group of people is the result of prejudiced or other bad ideas being past on by generation. People blindly trust tho's closest.

Autumn Schewe

3/7/2024 09:22:54 am

I agree with the perspectives being built off of a lifetime and how your childhood can really construct your perspective when you're older.

Lisa Mualem

3/7/2024 09:23:40 am

Childhood does have a pretty big play on who we are, I never thought about that.

Abby Jackson

3/7/2024 09:22:16 am

Sometimes you can try to understand it from somebody else and let them try to help you understand it but you can't fully understand somebody else's views or issues. They have a completely different life than you causing it to be almost impossible to even guess what they have gone through most times.

Mykala

3/7/2024 09:28:50 am

No, you can never fully understand others because to fully understand you would have to live their life. Experience everything they have experienced, and that is impossible. You can empathize with them to a certain extent but not fully.

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