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SteveA · Sep 19, 2005, 02:06 am

I apologize ahead of time but I just wanted to have a little fun with this so skip the rest if you're looking for something serious

I agree that relative to each other, noone will appear objective because everyone has a different viewpoint but that's off course my subjective view. I can't see things from someone elses view or any third person perspective so I can't truly claim for certain that other people aren't objective because that's just my subjective opinion.

If we assume noone can see anything other than "existance" from their specific viewpoint and not from an arbitrary alternate or multiple perspectives, isn't that the most objective view they can have?

To reword the last part, if we believe people can only see things from their own perspective, isn't the most unbiased view they could have be first-person-center? If they were to attempt to take an alternate perspective, and we believed this was impossible, then from our subjective view their attempted objective view would be no more objective, and in some senses less objective (as it would be subjected to their subjective view of objectivity), than if they took the more objective view (in my subjective opinion) that they couldn't truly be objective and instead relied on their subjective view as being the closest they could achieve to being objective!

I dare someone to repeat that 3 times fast.

Feel free to object to being subjected to that.

Sep 19, 2005, 02:06 am	#6 (permalink) (top)
SteveA Anarcho-capitalist Posts: 1,972	I apologize ahead of time but I just wanted to have a little fun with this so skip the rest if you're looking for something serious I agree that relative to each other, noone will appear objective because everyone has a different viewpoint but that's off course my subjective view. I can't see things from someone elses view or any third person perspective so I can't truly claim for certain that other people aren't objective because that's just my subjective opinion. If we assume noone can see anything other than "existance" from their specific viewpoint and not from an arbitrary alternate or multiple perspectives, isn't that the most objective view they can have? To reword the last part, if we believe people can only see things from their own perspective, isn't the most unbiased view they could have be first-person-center? If they were to attempt to take an alternate perspective, and we believed this was impossible, then from our subjective view their attempted objective view would be no more objective, and in some senses less objective (as it would be subjected to their subjective view of objectivity), than if they took the more objective view (in my subjective opinion) that they couldn't truly be objective and instead relied on their subjective view as being the closest they could achieve to being objective! I dare someone to repeat that 3 times fast. Feel free to object to being subjected to that. Freedom - are you man enough to handle it? If so, join us in New Hampshire! The Free State Project ("Liberty in our lifetime!") www.freestateproject.com Last edited by SteveA; Sep 19, 2005 at 02:14 am.