A person who programs in a low level computer assembly language might reasonably say to a person who uses a high level programming language: “It must be very difficult for you to use such a restrictive tool. There are so many things you can’t do!”<\/p>\n
Interestingly, a person who programs in a high level programming language might also reasonably say to a person who programs in assembly language: “It must be very difficult for you to use such a restrictive tool. There are so many things you can’t do!”<\/p>\n
Both statements are true, and there many analogous situations. The person who walks to work can see and do things that the person who drives cannot, and vice versa<\/i>. The person of faith can be motivated in ways that the atheist cannot, and vice versa<\/i>.<\/p>\n
There is a tendency to see those with different world views as living in a more restricted version of our own world view. To a Christian, Jews might be defined by their lack of belief in Christ. To a straight person, gay people may be defined by their lack of heterosexual desire.<\/p>\n
By thinking this way, we tend to miss the richness of the lives of others. If the meat eater sees a vegan as living in a restricted world, she will never realize the vast universe of taste experiences that the vegan takes for granted, of which the meat eater has no knowledge.<\/p>\n
I wonder whether this awareness should be made a part of our education in childhood: The ability to understand that those other ways of looking at the world, different from our ours, are not merely nested boxes within our own world view.<\/p>\n
They are other rooms, as large as our own, within the same spacious house.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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