- "A person's perspective is his or her reality." Ever heard this stupid observation that is often passed off as wisdom? It is symptomatic of the disease that is political-correctness. A perspective isn't necessarily truth. Truth is independent of perspective.
- I'm not saying that we shouldn't entertain perspectives that differ from our own. I'm not always right. This has been proven time and again, even though this knowledge doesn't prevent me from being opinionated. And I will acknowledge that, except in the rarest of circumstances, both sides of an argument usually have elements of the truth.
- Opinions and beliefs are crystallized through the prism of what is called our perspective. Opinions and beliefs are not necessarily True (yeah, I capitalized that).
- My thesis is that rather than worrying that we are offending individual perspectives, our main concern should be determining what is True.
- Of course, the problem remains in who will be the Judge of what is ultimately True or False.
- In a perfect world (my perspective), that would be me, of course.
- From your perspective, that would be you.
- An example of where perspective is misleading. A personal example. I recently watched the movie The Fisher King and was convinced that the actor who played the character who killed the people in the diner was Rainn Wilson, who plays Dwight Shrute on the American version of The Office. The moment I saw him on the screen, I said, "Dwight!" I believed this so much that I told several people about this revelation. Later, not because I doubted my version of reality but because I was curious to see what else was in Wilson's filmography, I looked him up on IMdB. The Fisher King wasn't listed. A little more research revealed that the character was played by Christian Clemenson, who I enjoyed watching as the lawyer with Asperger's Syndrome on Boston Legal. Thus, my shortly but firmly held belief was thoroughly altered.
- My brain, flawed object that it is, substituted a similar but different actor for the person who was actually paid to play the role.
- My perspective might have been my reality, but it wasn't True.
- Our perspectives are not reality. They are a belief.
- Beliefs are not necessarily True. Nor can they necessarily be proven.
- When we allow beliefs to get in the way of the Truth, we are doomed to circular logic and too much worry about hurting someone's feelings.
- There is no "your" reality or "my" reality. There's only reality.
- This has turned into a drunken rant. My apologies.
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