Presumptions and evidence

[erudito]

How people frame things-and what presumptions are behind such framings-can generate a lot of heat in public debate because people can look at the same events so differently. Worse, they can fail to see any legitimate reason for people not seeing things the same way they do. Leading, of course, to presumptions of illegitimate reasons

Comments

[chrismouse]

This reminds me of a conversation I had with my boyfriend recently. I'm a member of the US Navy, and I work in the national security field. He asked me what I thought was the biggest issue in terms of the global situation today. I told him I thought it was a lack of empathy, of people being able to see things from another's perspective, and thus being unwilling to work with those others regarding basically any issue whatsoever. I think I'd add moral relativism as a secondary there.

And upon further reading? Don't even get me started on the failure of the so-called War on Poverty stuff here.

From the same page

[erudito]

We seem to be very much "on the same page" here.

Except with me, it is not the US War on Poverty, it is the even more grotesque failure of indigenous policy down here in Oz. (As you may have gathered from the links.)