Attitude towards events...
Assume you enter your office cafeteria and find someones food spilled on the ground, what would be your reaction? Oops I should not step over it or Sad someone lost their lunch or who is this stupid guy who carelessly spilled his lunch and did not care to clean it up? What would be your first reaction?
I guess it depends a lot on how you prioritize hunger and cleanthiness. If you understand hunger you would empathize with the unfortunate doer of the act, if you are more leaned towards cleanthiness you would accuse the doer of carelessness.
I was faced with such a situation, with me being the one who lost my lunch, unintentional and not for experimentation. My first reaction was to clean up as much as I can and call the janitor to mop up the remaining. There was a delay, before the janitor turned up and it was really interesting to see what people comming into the cafeteria had to say. I had stepped aside and there was none around when this happened. So, the people comming in had no knowledge about who the culprit was.
There was a kind soul who did place a couple of tissues to warn others to not step on it. There were others who just took it in their stride and walked around stuff. There were others who felt bad that some lost their lunch and then there were these others, who were thinking aloud about how clean the house, of the guy who split the food, would be. People have way too much negative energy ;)
If I had been in a similar situation with the roles reversed, my first reaction would be that the person was careless. But for a change, I got to empathize if all those who lost their lunch. Surprisingly enough, it has been quite some time since I realized hunger.
I guess it depends a lot on how you prioritize hunger and cleanthiness. If you understand hunger you would empathize with the unfortunate doer of the act, if you are more leaned towards cleanthiness you would accuse the doer of carelessness.
I was faced with such a situation, with me being the one who lost my lunch, unintentional and not for experimentation. My first reaction was to clean up as much as I can and call the janitor to mop up the remaining. There was a delay, before the janitor turned up and it was really interesting to see what people comming into the cafeteria had to say. I had stepped aside and there was none around when this happened. So, the people comming in had no knowledge about who the culprit was.
There was a kind soul who did place a couple of tissues to warn others to not step on it. There were others who just took it in their stride and walked around stuff. There were others who felt bad that some lost their lunch and then there were these others, who were thinking aloud about how clean the house, of the guy who split the food, would be. People have way too much negative energy ;)
If I had been in a similar situation with the roles reversed, my first reaction would be that the person was careless. But for a change, I got to empathize if all those who lost their lunch. Surprisingly enough, it has been quite some time since I realized hunger.
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