It came up as part of my Extension History class in Year 12, with reference to assessing historical sources, and I quickly became obsessed.
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Shocking nobody, teenage!me was exactly the kind of nerd to occasionally write essays for pleasure on topics I liked. This was one of them.
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What fascinated me was the realisation that, while objective facts clearly existed, all human perspectives were inherently subjective.
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This means: a) subjective beliefs can be confused with objective truths; and b) objective truths can be dismissed as subjective beliefs.
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But what this also means, as I soon realised, is that this very fact puts those who acknowledge their own subjectivity at a disadvantage.
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If you acknowledge that people are flawed and can't always be objective, then you're acknowledging your own potential bias. Sensible, right?
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But if you believe that your beliefs are objectively correct and true - that YOU are objective - you never have to acknowledge your biases.
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So: in any argument btwn an objectivist & a subjectivist, the subjectivist is disadvantaged, b/c BOTH agree the s'vist is potentially wrong.
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As such, the subjectivist's intellectual honesty means that, if they declare the objectivist wrong, the objectivist can call it hypocrisy.
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Which is so immensely frustrating! Because it should, fairly, be OBVIOUS that nobody is inherently right *all the time*. AND YET.
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Acknowledging subjectivity, to the objectivist, is frequently & falsely strawmanned as either "nothing is real" or "morality is relative".
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This is why, for instance, Creationists think it's hypocritical of scientists to teach evolution, but not creationism. Their logic says:
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"If science can self-correct and admit the possibility of error, then LOGICALLY *any* theory must be as valid as any other, including mine!"
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