Why Does Demonizing Another Perspective Put You At a Low Perspective Yourself?

[Inliytened1]

@Thought Art Oneness. 

All perspectives are you so to demonize other is to demonize yourself.  This realization brings compassion and open mindedess.

Edited January 14 by Inliytened1

[Basman]

7 hours ago, The Crocodile said:

The funny thing with this is that Leo calls people The Devil (literally). So devilizing is okay but demonizing isn't?

You could argue that "devilizing"/demonizing doesn't preclude the possibility of that perspective of being potentially true or valid. Demonizing is simply portraying something as threatening and wicked.

[Thought Art]

If you objectively review someone actions from a calm, centred place and find them cheating, lying, defrauding, killing, stealing, raping, destroying, etc… maybe that’s a devil? But that isn’t demonizing?

[Thought Art]

Imagine if in order to understand a higher perspective you would have to go to school for 4 years. 

Demonizing is way easier.

[Human Mint]

Low perspectives have a strong emotional appeal to them, they suck you in and suddenly you get all involved without even realizing it. No space for reflexion whatsoever and nevermind any caring for truth. Probably we agree that low perspectives are really easy to adopt whereas higher ones take a lot of work.

A quick answer to the question "Why demonizing other perspectives puts you at a low perspective?" could be: because in doing so you prevent yourself from the possibility of actual understanding, or the possibility of doing any crucial discernment about the perspective in question, given that you get attached to a belief or an emotion -which sometimes are very correlated-. This doesn't mean you need to accept all the lower perspectives when you don't agree, especially when they're a hazard. But demonizing is just anti-truth and a really bad habit overall.

Its a fun exercise to seek higher perspectives.