Context And Perspective

Context and Perspective

Written by
Brij Sachdeva

The ‘context and perspective’ are the least respected values in our routine argumentative skill. In a conversation, people don't care for the point, one is trying to make. They are always thinking about making their own statement by picking a word from what is being said. This is the way they destroy the point before it is made by the speaking person and divert the whole conversation away from the scope, the context and the Perspective.

Here is an example, of how they do it.

On a certain day, I was explaining to my friends about the meaning of corruption from the fundamental existential perspective, which is far beyond the economic perspective. I said, “As fire is hot and water flows downwards, similarly man is essentially corrupt by nature”. One of my friends refuted my statement by saying, “We make the water flow upwards using a motor pump”. I said, “That is the nature of the motor, not water.” This is the way we escape, out of the context and the perspective, and become insensitive to the significance, the beauty of expression and the feelings of the speaker when we are bent upon finding contradictions, especially when we are incompetent for the argument.

In my blog post titled ‘TO REFUTE IS EASY’ ( Brij Sachdeva blog) I have explained how easily people can criticize everything that goes against their existing position or their confirmation bias or simply out of sheer ignorance.

If you are clever enough, you can find tons of contradictions in almost every expression. But the frame of reference, the context and the emphasis from which the author is expressing a certain situation should also be respected.