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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Djeta Thernadier" data-source="post: 1681358" data-attributes="member: 12043">I think role playing helps out people in many professions. I know in customer services jobs, it is done often to help the trainees learn to see what it's like from the customer's perspective. Not too hard because in almost all customer service jobs, there is a set way service people are trained to deal with all kinds of customers. And the rule is almost always to try and resolve the problem. It's not really an opinion. It's the way your job works.I think in politics it is a little different because on many of the issues, there is no one right answer...just differing opinions. I'm picking an issue at random here...Hopefully one that won't cause a stink...Affirmative action...One camp says it's the way to go for women and minorities to get good jobs, one camp says it is not right and rather offensive to hire people to fill quotas.Say you're in the latter camp. You are, IRL, a white middle aged man. You role play the part of an Asian college grad woman looking for a good job. You can still say you feel the same way about the issue, and come up with reasons why. You may not be able to come up with any reasons why you would be for it. It is really hard to change someones opinion on an issue they feel strongly about. Not impossible, but hard.I don't know if that makes any sense. Kind of hard without actually getting into a discussion about actual politics.</blockquote>

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