HW #2 : Blog Comments 1

Comment on Ariel B's blog :

You have a good idea flowing about how scary the idea of not being able to connect with anyone would make everyone selfish and the world a cold place. I didn't think of it in this way. I looked at absolute individuality as a good thing. Its what separated us from the next. I think that if everyone was able to feel each others pain , at what point would you get to actually develop your own. What i believe Banach is saying is that we can relate to other peoples emotions because we are all human but we will never really actually understand or feel what anyone else does because we are our own persons with our own minds and experience.

I also liked how you related a point in the lecture to your own personal experience.

Comment on Matt B's blog :
I really love how you use the metaphor of a mother and her child to disagree with the idea of absolute individuality. yes you are correct about the relationship between a mother and her child but have you ever felt that you couldn't talk to your mother because she wouldn't understand you. This is the feel i get from his lectures. Banach isn't saying that we don't care about others but that we simply cannot be 100% sure of what another person feels, only how we can relate to their feelings from our own feelings.
In your second paragraph you discuss this idea.

This was a good post , i look forward to reading your other reflections.