Melody_2.3_NQ
In this chapter, the author talks about personal orders and and languages and things of such, and one of the things in these areas that he touches on is the interpretation of others' personal orders and languages. So my question is: do people usually project their own motives onto others when interpreting the personal orders of those other people? For example, Matt helps an old lady cross the road because he wants other people who are watching to think that he's a nice guy who likes helping others; he didn't help the lady because he genuinely likes help others. Later, he sees Joe helping someone else cross the road, and because of Matt's own motives, he thinks that Joe only helped that person cross the road because Joe too wants other people to think of him as a nice guy, not because Joe genuinely likes to help people. So, Matt projected his own motives onto Joeand assumed that Joe's motives were just like his. Is this kind of projection normal? Do most people do this, or are most people able to distinguish that everyone's motives may be different?
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posted by Melody Teo @ 10:46 PM
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I do think that there are people out there that do things so that people can see how good of a person they are. There's a famous saying in Spanish that basically says that the one who does bad things, knows whenever someone else is doing the same thing. I don't know how I could better translate that phrase. But yeah, going back to your question, I do think that there are people who think everybody else has the same motive as him/her. I think this mostly happens whenever a person is doing something that is seen as bad within the social orders.
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