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I often wonder if it's also due to different communication styles. I remember in high school a friend and I would always chat about movies and tell each other w
by allenu 4y ago
I often wonder if it's also due to different communication styles. I remember in high school a friend and I would always chat about movies and tell each other what we thought after seeing one. My friend would always use language like "X movie sucked" or "Y movie was boring".
For some reason whenever he would talk about his opinion of movies, it got me a little bit annoyed, because his statements always came across as objective truth. He didn't say, "I thought X movie sucked" or "I felt that movie Y was boring... for these reasons", he just said what he thought.
My communication style was always, "I feel this..." or "I think this..." or "In my opinion, X was..." Whenever I get into arguments with people nowadays, I often notice it's because I want there to be the option for subjective opinion on things and some people don't like that. They want an objective truth that they can walk away with and say, "Well, after that conversation, we came to the conclusion that Z was awful."
Since noticing my preferences for communications, I'm more okay with people trying to say something is an objective truth. To them, sure, there's one truth but I'm not going to waste my time arguing beyond a certain point. It's not my job to convince someone else two truths may exist simultaneously.
- tyleo 4y agoI think it’s merely a style as you mention in your first sentence. Some people who speak using the objective style are just being loose with language. They still realize what they are saying is subjective. I talk like this even when I'm being subjective. In fact, I largely talk like this because I used to talk and write more subjectively but I was dinged in an English class for not sounding convincing.