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Examples like this are how I realized that almost everything is subjective. Things we think are objective are usually subjective things that we decided to agre

• bserge 6y ago
  Yeah, I'd say that's true of most things that are too complicated to be understood by a single individual. In the end, it's all about the collective. It needs a consensus to move forward, and that doesn't need to be perfect, just good enough. The whole human civilization works mostly on subjective conclusions, sometimes a minority brings up enough facts/proof to change the established consensus, but often we just pile layers upon layers on top of things that are not objectively true or not completely true. But they're good enough, and we're very adaptable.
• kempbellt 6y ago
  Ironically, I would argue that just about everything that happens is an objective event, but any and every interpretation/understanding of causality is itself, subjective. In the hypothetical scenario the objective reality is: A pedestrian and a car collided. Other factors come into play, which all have potential influence on the causality of this objective reality, and said factors are frequently subjectively asserted as more relevant to causality than others. Strong assertions to causality may include: Driver was drunk, pedestrian was jaywalking, pedestrian was wearing dark clothing, driver was speeding, driver was texting, driver and pedestrian had a prior altercation, driver was tired, etc Weaker assertions to causality may include: It was a Tuesday, someone sneezed 3 miles away, a butterfly flapped its wings, pedestrian knocked over salt during dinner earlier, etc Causality is hard... We're getting better at it, but superstitions are a thing that exist, even if they are a bit odd.