I have been thinking about the outsider's perspective for a while now. Can we make a broadly general statement about the outsider perspective?
I initially asked myself "Is the outsider's perspective always positive or negative in certain situations? If so, what are the situations?". Take relationships for that matter. When they fail in particular. The outsider's perspective, it seems to me, is always negative no matter what. Or affairs. Or really may be that is the case when anything goes wrong according to the societal norms. The outsider usually fails to empathize with the situation. Sympathize, maybe. The outsider perspective could be all positive about a person's abilities. And that positive perspective could be just wrong.
This led me to ask myself again: " Is the outsider's perspective that of just ignorance?" Not all the time, right? We go seek an outsider's perspective to find our blind spots. Don't we? One might argue we don't ask an outsider but we ask a friend. Nonetheless, the outsider is known to have an unbiased opinion. So the outsider's perspective is not always that of ignorance.
This leads me to the question "When should an outsider have a perspective and when should he/she not?"
