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Originally Posted by geneven
"We all tend to assume that others feel, think, and act like we do, and that we're representative, regardless of the circumstances and choices. That's almost never true,"
I'd say it's usually true; the average person thinks like the average person, on average. In extreme situations, no, but we're not talking extreme situations here. We are correct to assume that we think like other people like us, otherwise the world wouldn't work, driving would be difficult.
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I wrote the original comment above. It was in response to an assertion by another poster who admitted sharing pirated files through RapidShare, and seemed to presume from that that if
he did it, everyone else did too, because everyone else was just like him.
Not so, and an example of what I meant above. We will be broadly similar to others, and that is indeed what allows society to function. But there wil be very definite limits to
how similar, and we certainly won't be identical.
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Dennis