Personal experience vs Facts
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In every problem humankind has experienced, there were two aspects: personal experience and facts.
When the war started, most of what we knew were facts, letters engraved on paper. However, as time passed, we talked to some escapees, who told us about their personal experiences. There are two opinions: Some people say that facts are better, and some say that the experiences of the people from the conflict are better.
To those who say that facts are better, they say that facts are the most important part and that is partly true, but they also say that personal experiences are not needed to see a good image about the conflict or war. Which I disagree about, because of this, facts only show political information and mostly they are only letters on some paper or numbers on a graph. What can this say about the war? Very little. Numbers on a graph and letters on some paper cannot say as much as personal experiences from someone who has really seen then war. But some people might dissagree and say, "But facts tell us how many people have died in the conflict!". Even though that is, true facts are like talking to wall, for example if you talk a wall it wont reply, same thing with facts, if you talk to them they won't answer you. And mostly if they wan the Russian goverment can spread misinformation about the war at will
To those who say that personal experiences are better, I firmly agree with them because of this, personal experiences go in detail and not only that, the people can talk to you and you can discuss the problem with them unlike facts, which are like a wall, and a wall cannot talk to you, of course. But like everything in history, good things have of course a downside. If some people want misinformation to be spread, they might tell you wrong information. Amd also personal experience is not always the full pcture of the problem because of opinions and also a lot of people that have a lot of personal experience get killed in the process.
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I believe facts are far better than personal experiences, especially when it comes to understanding serious issues like war. Personal stories are powerful, no doubt, but they are often one-sided and can be influenced by emotions or biases. A person sharing their experience might exaggerate or leave out important details, which can give you a distorted view of the situation. On the other hand, facts are objective and based on evidence, which makes them more reliable. They give us a clear and accurate picture of what really happened, without all the confusion or emotion that can cloud a personal experience.
Facts are like the solid foundation of a house—they give us the structure we need to understand the bigger picture. Numbers, dates, and statistics help us see the scope of a situation, whether it's the number of lives lost or the impact of the conflict. Without these facts, we’d just have a bunch of emotional stories that don’t add up to much. Facts also allow us to compare different situations, analyze trends, and make informed decisions. If we only relied on personal experiences, we’d be trapped in an endless loop of individual opinions with no clear direction or truth.
While personal experiences can make us feel something, facts help us see things as they truly are. They give us the full, unfiltered reality, and that’s what we need to really understand what’s going on in the world.
If facts can give us the truth, why settle for anything less?
In my opinion, personal experience is more important when it comes to a war. Everyone experiences it ina diffrent way and everyones opinion matters. Emotions are real things and they are more powerful than any statistics. I think we can get an impression of war based on true feelings, emotions and experience, not graphs and facts.
Can you give an example to who might disagree? For example, a politician might disagree and say that facts show the statistics and how many people have died and that is the most important thing at war. Do you agree?