About Me

Minneapolis, MN, United States
I seek for peace, goodness, god-ness, something like this. Sometimes I’m closer, sometimes I’m further away. Sometimes within me, always outside me. Yet, still I am seeking.

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

How Subjective is Objective

What do you think of the way the car drives? What do you think of who is the most beautiful of these five girls? Who do you think is the best of these guitar player/composers?

Well, this is what we call subjective. Your opinion of all these things are subjective because there is no absolute right or wrong to any of the questions. Therefore, sure you can feel good that you think something, but it is of no more value than any other random subjective opinion so don't get too excited about it. Many people will disagree with you and you are not more right than them by any logical formula.

Well, this is also objective. It is objectively true that your subjective opinion is what it is. This is objective. It is absolute and it has right and wrong value. No, you are not making a statement about what is the absolute beauty of all women in the world. And good thing because any sentence with that information inside is called bs. And you wouldn't want to be bs-ing. Beauty is, objectively speaking, what you interpret to be beautiful in the moment you are asked what you think it is. Funny though, you don't think in order for it to be, it just is.

There is no purely objective absolute form that all people see at once when discussing art, beauty, fun, happiness, and so on. The objective form is the one inside you right now. Yours is not contingent upon mine, or any form of democratic approval. In this case, right and wrong is yours and yours only. And it is absolute.

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