From our own point of view

How different my views would be if I were a black man, a muslim, a woman, a gay person, the list goes on, an amputee, an african living in the Congo, and so on, how different and how strange that we never seem to make the effort to see any situation from the 'others' point of view.
We are usually prescriptive in how we see things only from our own point of view, and our solutions which take our own condition to be the default position. 

Our views whether coloured by our mobility or our security, our sexuality, our experience through the prism of being born who we are, clouds our ability to see clearly through another's eyes. 

It is of course clearly impossible to see the world through another's eyes. Even if you were an identical twin the trillions of connections in your brain preclude the chance that, other than in a general sort of way, your twin and you will be at one and in sync.
This opens up the frightening concept that 'I am alone' whilst standing in a crowd.  That for comfort I will concede and accommodate just to become accepted.

In the defence which Socrates puts before the judge he argues for his identity as a person who simply reasons things out, not from a position of knowing, not even from a position of trying to teach and convince but through his own integrity to question. 

His accusers say that he is an influence on the youth and that he denied the gods of Athens. His potential sentence is one of being put to death. And so even in court and in danger of being killed - he 'reasons'

"For the fear of death is the pretence of wisdom, not real wisdom, being the  pretence of knowing the unknown and no one knows whether death, which men in their fear apprehend to be their greatest evil, may not be their greatest good. Is not this ignorance a disgraceful sort, the ignorance which is the conceit that man knows what he does not know."

We all have a responsibility to reason. We might not get it right but we have to try. If we are the individual I suggest we are we can not look to others for answers, we have to find the answers ourselves and then at least we can say, "I gave it my best shot".