[Herring]

Try reading more books, eg autobiographies or fiction. Understanding other people’s perspectives is a skill like any other.

[lone-cloud]

Maybe you should take your own advise and try to understand his perspective.

[gandalfgreybeer]

Understanding a perspective and agreeing with it aren’t the same thing. Herring’s point was about the ‘I don’t see why anyone would need this’ framing, not that the position itself is hard to grasp.

[cromka]

This is a logical fallacy like saying one should tolerate the intolerance, because otherwise it's intolerance.

[cromka]

Still looking for that microphone you dropped!

[mgaunard]

Trying to understand everyone is a foolish endeavor, if not outwardly judgemental.

What's more valuable is simply accepting that there are others who are different.