Quote from a newsgroup where a lot of people were extensively debating in defence of the content of a forwarded email…
There was one post against the email which said this:
NOT MY INTENT TO HURT ANYONE
Whenever I get this kind of junk email…
This man is either blatantly lying, or simply being naive.
This is the core of the problem, that people are not sensitive to each other, inspite of the disclaimers that are put up.
I remember a joke – a worker compains to the supervisor that another colleague is always very abusive. The supervisor summons the other colleague and questions him about it. The colleague defends himself saying “Khanditha illa saar, ee boLi magan naan yaak sir baili ?!” (Of course not sir, why would I abuse this son-of-a-****)
When people are passionately defending something, how can one even though having the intent of not hurting anyone possibly dismiss the object of the discussion as junk? 🙂
For example, wrt all the people who are trying so hard to protect Kannada (let us ignore the fraction who speak to their children in English and consider only the rest), one rarely questions “why are these people upset… is there any way we can establish peace and harmony” instead of the usual “don’t these people have anything else to do…!!”
Looking at things from another’s point of view is actually a skill – to be able to come out of one’s own box certainly requires a certain degree of selflessness and compassion, and these things tends to reduce as life becomes a rat race.
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