Jamie cannot bring herself to pull the trigger, since she cannot do what Jae recommended, and not think of the target as a person. She and her sister had spent a few hours on a gondola with this man, Vincent, and his son. It is when we dehumanize others that we cease to value their lives the way we would want ours to be valued, forgetting that devaluing and dehumanizing also works both ways.<\/p>\n
When Jae promises that \u201cit gets easier\u201d, Jamie wisely responds \u201cThat\u2019s what I\u2019m afraid of\u201d.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve recently heard a violin teacher say \u201cpractice makes permanent<\/a>\u201c. We all know the more familiar \u201cpractice makes perfect<\/i>\u201c, but in fact practice only makes perfect if you are practicing correctly. Bad habits can also become permanent, and if learning is hard, the unlearning that sometimes needs to take place before we can learn is harder.<\/p>\n I\u2019m sure other birdwatching fans noticed the sound<\/a> of an Eastern Wood Pewee<\/a> \u2013 which may suggest that the episode wasn\u2019t actually filmed in Montana, where it was set. We had a pewee along the creek behind our house for most of this past summer, and its entertaining song<\/a> is highly recognizable to me now. I\u2019ve learned to recognize a lot of the regular avian visitors to our bird feeder and our neighborhood, with time and some effort. Practice makes permanent.<\/p>\n (I have a feeling the pewee annoyed the film crew, who tried to get as much footage without its distracting call as they could. They give it a final salute at the very end of the episode, suggesting that it made an impression on them.)<\/p>\n
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