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"Horrible" is sometimes subjective. There are things that pretty much every reasonable person would agree are horrible.
by egdod 7y ago
"Horrible" is sometimes subjective. There are things that pretty much every reasonable person would agree are horrible.
- ben509 7y ago> pretty much every reasonable person Reasonable is subjective.
- egdod 7y agoNo, it isn’t. The “reasonable person” standard in lots of laws exists exactly because we can agree on it as an objective standard.
- ben509 7y agoWe don't agree what it actually is, though. In practice, the "reasonable person" standard is achieved by asking a jury. In a jury, the members apply their life experiences to the case they're deciding and then persuade each other to reach a unanimous conclusion. That's an entirely subjective process, and if you repeat it with another jury you can get the polar opposite answer.
- egdod 7y agoJuries might disagree about what a reasonable person would do in a given situation. But that was just a digression. I think that almost all juries could agree on some subset of behaviors being labeled as “horrible.”