Your opinion can go fuck itself. Join it if you’re feeling lonely
Comments(3) - If I hold an opinion, it means that I believe that opinion to be correct, or at the very least I believe it to be the best opinion available. If I did not believe either, I wouldn’t hold it.
- By definition, if I believe myself to be correct, and someone else holds a diametrically opposed opinion, I will believe them to be wrong.
- I believe that the right of anyone to an opinion, and the right to express it, is sacrosanct.
- The above does not in any way mean that I respect any given opinion for any reason other than its merit in my eyes.
- Your opinion does not deserve my respect just because you have one.
- You do not deserve my respect just because you exist.
- If elitism is only having time for things I believe are worth something, then I am elitist.
- I do not believe that every question has many answers, or that any question has none.
Above are the things I am sure of. Below are things I am not so sure of
Aesthetics are the hardest thing to conclude anything about in this context. Of all things, beauty comes the closest to complete subjectivity, it is almost entirely dependent on the person perceiving it. Almost. The subjectivity will always be limited by the objective reality in the existence of what is being perceived. Is complete subjectivity possible then in a hallucination, a drug trip, a mirage? Does it even matter then, since in such a situation our standards are skewed in any case?
For something to be completely subjective it must be not only perceived by us, but created by us, and not observable, or real, to anyone else. And if it is created by us, in a hallucination or a daydream, we have no standards by which to judge it against except our own, no other analysis can be applied to it, because it exists nowhere but our minds. So consciousness is the only thing that can create true subjectivity. Interesting.
In lieu of hypothesising about the implications of this, I will now go and buy some wine for dinner with Agnes and Joanna.
however, if ever view of reality is gain through our ‘conscious’ perception does that make everything subjective. also, does that mean that objectivity is unobtainable? (may or may not be a word)
Assuming that an opinion which is logical in your frame of reference is more correct than that another individual derives from their different frame of reference presumes a lot (on my innately subjective analysis of it). I say that not only is objectivity unattainable, it is fundamentally irrelevant to the human experience.
Marion: I think it highly likely that real objectivity is unobtainable. But I don’t necessarilty believe that to be a negative thing. The ideaa of complete logic and objective jusgement is almost as horrifying as the idea of complete subjectivity, a life inside your own head. Total objectivity is devoid of personality and emotion. I’d say both absolutes are inhuman.
Gus: Hippy :P
If the only frame of reference I can possibly have is my own, then to me it is the only one that matters. I cannot know for certain that there are any others. So my “frame of reference” is my whole universe, and within that universe I have no intention of second-guessing my opinion based on points of view which I cannot emulate.
I think objectivity is essential to the human experience. Philosophise for hours and you’ll still be hungry if you don’t eat. Objectvity = reality. Existing in an entirely subjective world sounds absolutely awful to me. And I think it would necessitate complete isolation from external entities, including people.
Define “the human experience”.