Comments by "Zealous1" (@euphratesjehan) on "FRONTLINE PBS | Official"
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@jazzyjezzy3016 I appreciate your comment but would argue the point you made "in order to understand you have to experience it."
Not necessarily
For example, say you put your hand on a hot stove and burned it; and I say oh my goodness, I know that was painful.
I don't have to go put my hand on a hot stove to understand your experience.
Now, if I happened to have experienced the same thing you did, I would call that a direct vs an indirect experience.
We could also take that same scenario further:
What if you say, yeah, even though you burnt your hand on a stove, mine was more serious than yours; and I respond, why was your experience more serious? You reply and say, you were 4 years older than me and could withstand pain better than a little toddler; plus you knew better not to touch a hot stove, and although my mother told me not to, as a toddler I didn't have the capacity to relate the magnitude of heat outside my own experience; such as with my Holly Hobby stove set; whereas, your mind was developed enough to associate outside of yourself and imagine the magnitude of heat and how it could heat food in a pan; and logically deduce that if you put your hand (which is not comprised with the same material as the pan because you can feel how soft and tender your skin is & how it wouldn't be able to stand the heat).
See how this can go on & on?
Who cares, right?
It's not a competition, per se. The point is being able to "relate" ~ having EMPATHY
Having empathy for others
And in this I definitely agree with your overall assessment/comment
Again, I also agree that having been through a similar or exact experience does help us to understand at a deeper and/or higher level; than not having experienced it at all.
Thanks for sharing
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