It's funny, because you're essentially doing the exact same thing you're accusing the person you're talking about of doing: declaring the person an idiot incapable of recognising other people have different priorities.
Sorry, but sometimes people really do just vote against there own interests because they've been convinced of things that are wrong, or they misunderstand something. I expect you could even think of some examples if you tried.
And your whole post is just wildly making assumptions about someone you don't know:
- "thinks of others as robots..."
- "Everyone in the world must, as some precondition of the universe, be interested in all the same things"
- "He cannot imagine that people external to himself have any real interests at all"
- "this person tends to think of those others as malfunctioning"
- "...it could be some sort of existential crisis as far as he's concerned"
- "How could two competing interests even exist in a sane or fair universe"
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Perhaps you could have some faith? I doubt you've never voted for something you came to regret.
Sorry, but sometimes people really do just vote against there own interests because they've been convinced of things that are wrong, or they misunderstand something. I expect you could even think of some examples if you tried.
And your whole post is just wildly making assumptions about someone you don't know: - "thinks of others as robots..." - "Everyone in the world must, as some precondition of the universe, be interested in all the same things" - "He cannot imagine that people external to himself have any real interests at all" - "this person tends to think of those others as malfunctioning" - "...it could be some sort of existential crisis as far as he's concerned" - "How could two competing interests even exist in a sane or fair universe" -
Perhaps you could have some faith? I doubt you've never voted for something you came to regret.