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I know a (sometimes) lesbian, who was arguing with me that the Pope was wrong in his statements regarding the Catholic stance on homosexuality.

I said to her, "Don't you think its a bit presumptuous of you to say you know more about being a Catholic than the Pope?"

Even she had to acknowledge that point.

[Alberta's Child]

Your conversation really goes to the heart of these disputes. The problem people have is one of an idiotic sense of "self-projection" -- they assume that their own personal life experiences, social condition, and political culture is automatically assumed to be the same as everyone else's.

I see this crap all the time. Someone who sits in traffic for two hours on the way to work in a crowded city every day automatically assumes that he lives in a country where all 280 million people sit in traffic for two hours on the the way to work in a crowded city every day.