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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They don't see this as a fallacy because they don't understand that acknowledging subjectivity doesn't preclude a belief in verifiable fact.
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Facts exist independently of individual opinions about them: the subjective element is how people choose to interpret, define & use them.
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But to an objectivist, it's outrageous to suggest *their* Immutable Truth might NOT be true; any "fact" to this effect is therefore suspect.
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If any so-called "fact" upsets a True Believer's worldview, the only thing it proves to them is that "facts" are fundamentally negotiable.
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