Precisely. We cannot 'balance' critical thinking with magical thinking any more than we can balance freedom of speech with censorship of offensive speech. There is no balance. We just lose critical thinking and freedom of speech. https://twitter.com/sisboombahbah/status/999998582181810176 …
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I can't help noticing that Twitter likes me better when I am tired, grumpy & have zero patience than when I am well-rested, polite & endlessly charitable. You are all bad, bad people.
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It depends on whether you need a job to put bread on the table. Food is objective, no?

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That doesn't make any sense.
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not to you apparently

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Well, no. You can explain what it means and how it relates to what I said or not.
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In many countries, people can lose their jobs, or even go to jail, for telling the objective truth so they are afraid. You might not understand that if you live in a country with free speech.
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Can't subjective things be true, though? Cilantro smells like soap to me. There are objective, genetic reasons for this perception but ultimately my dislike of it isn't objectivity. Yet it's true.
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You are identifying objective reasons for why Cilantro smells bad to you. Subjectivism means that you can like/hate the smell on a whim. Subjectivism has to do with the mind not the variation of ones sensory organs.
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I literally said they are objective reasons, which are separate from my subjective DISLIKE. Just because I'm arguing with Helen doesn't mean you have to assume I'm mentally handicapped.
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Similarly, the term “subjective truth” is NOT usually used to describe the truths of subjective states (eg, “I am truly angry/sad/hearing yanny”), but the truth of factual beliefs based on subjective considerations (eg, “I don’t believe in evolution because it feels wrong.”)
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Do you have a test for truth? A test for objective truth? Are they the same test?
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And if you claim there is no objective truth, you've just refuted yourself.
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