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You have gone from knowing absolutely No I havent. I never said knowing absolutely. I said that I absolutely can do something, as in, you are saying I cant do X, I am saying, I absolutely can do X, meaning of course I can do X. But to truly understand it in the way that they do, you have to experience it. The whole "lived experience" argument is saying that I cannot question someone if I dont have the same experience they do. This is wrong, lived experience does not (necessarily) give you access to truth. I can understand someones lived experience by listening to what they say. Now I can understand what it must have been like but that doesn't mean I am going to fill up my basement with tinfoil, glass jars and old Sears catalogues etc... :P Understanding someone, does not mean that you then go and do the same things that they do. This has nothing to do with what we are talking about. |