There is a surprisingly wide band of cognitive ability where you understand that a person you interact with is not as smart as yourself, but you are still unable to understand the implications and accommodate that. (Instead, you just feel superior and are upset about the other.)https://twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/1133818541650538496 …
The officer is unable to tell the difference between a potential burglar scouting out a student dorm and a poorly mannered student ("dude", "bro") that just refuses to cooperate. Neither has been educated or is capable to understand the motives and signals of the other.
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Thanks for clarifying, but I still think this is a distorted account - and frankly naive - in reducing the situation to a restricted aspect of cognition. The translation from education to capabilities isn't so simple, neither generally speaking, nor for particular situations.
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The capacity or function to model the other isn't unitary either. For example, I think the student probably does understand the motives and signals well, but also understands that the officer is committed to ignore his rights. Would it be rational to compromise on one's rights?
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