Hi Caerulea-Lawrence, thanks for your comment. The reason we say: “If you don’t understand that worldview, then you’ll be unable to predict what these groups will do. You will also struggle to communicate with them in a way that they care about, or persuade them to do things differently.” is not because we are trying to convince anyone to have a particular worldview with this piece—it’s because we are trying to motivate people to see other perspectives even if they are still stuck in their own perspective. That is, there are instrumental reasons to try to see things from other people’s perspectives, even if you are convinced you’re 100% right and they are totally wrong.
I wonder what about this piece makes you think we’re trying to use it to promote a particular worldview? The intention of the piece is precisely the opposite—to promote understanding multiple world views (and learning what the different worldviews have to offer).
A major goal in this piece is to try to be fair to every worldview without advocating for any worldview in particular. This is hard to do, and it’s possible we failed in specific ways—if you have specific examples of us being unfair to a worldview, please let us know, and if you make a case we find convincing that we’ve given short shrift to that perspective we’ll change it. We’ve already done that based on past feedback on this piece (updating a few of the descriptions based on feedback from people who hold that worldview). We’re trying to describe each worldview in a way that most of the people who hold that view agree with and endorse the way we describe it.
You are welcome. Maybe this answer will help answer some of your questions.
What I am imagining, is what your text would look like if you started your post by describing your own worldview and your own intentions and motivations; your own answers to the four questions?
You write that every worldview has their own truth, so wouldn’t it make things clearer if you acknowledge and specify the link between your own worldview and why you write this post?
I do acknowledge that you have already put in a lot of work in this, and my comments are not meant to address all the facets of your post in its entirety. I am honing in on the one part that seems a bit contradictory to me, and confusing, in the hopes that it can help in improving things the way you want to.
Hi Caerulea-Lawrence, thanks for your comment. The reason we say: “If you don’t understand that worldview, then you’ll be unable to predict what these groups will do. You will also struggle to communicate with them in a way that they care about, or persuade them to do things differently.” is not because we are trying to convince anyone to have a particular worldview with this piece—it’s because we are trying to motivate people to see other perspectives even if they are still stuck in their own perspective. That is, there are instrumental reasons to try to see things from other people’s perspectives, even if you are convinced you’re 100% right and they are totally wrong.
I wonder what about this piece makes you think we’re trying to use it to promote a particular worldview? The intention of the piece is precisely the opposite—to promote understanding multiple world views (and learning what the different worldviews have to offer).
A major goal in this piece is to try to be fair to every worldview without advocating for any worldview in particular. This is hard to do, and it’s possible we failed in specific ways—if you have specific examples of us being unfair to a worldview, please let us know, and if you make a case we find convincing that we’ve given short shrift to that perspective we’ll change it. We’ve already done that based on past feedback on this piece (updating a few of the descriptions based on feedback from people who hold that worldview). We’re trying to describe each worldview in a way that most of the people who hold that view agree with and endorse the way we describe it.
Hi again spencerg,
You are welcome. Maybe this answer will help answer some of your questions.
What I am imagining, is what your text would look like if you started your post by describing your own worldview and your own intentions and motivations; your own answers to the four questions?
You write that every worldview has their own truth, so wouldn’t it make things clearer if you acknowledge and specify the link between your own worldview and why you write this post?
I do acknowledge that you have already put in a lot of work in this, and my comments are not meant to address all the facets of your post in its entirety. I am honing in on the one part that seems a bit contradictory to me, and confusing, in the hopes that it can help in improving things the way you want to.
Kindly,
Caerulea-Lawrence