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> anyone who claims to hold an purely objective viewpoint is a liar or delusional. Is this purely objective? Can you think of no exceptions, under any scenario
by mistermann 3y ago
> anyone who claims to hold an purely objective viewpoint is a liar or delusional.
Is this purely objective? Can you think of no exceptions, under any scenarios?
- kelseyfrog 3y agoConfusing the subjective for the objective is a widely studied phenomenon. It's called reification and people generally deny doing it. There's a strong ego defense mechanism that raises when it's pointed out that shuts down conversation.
- mistermann 3y agoThe utterly bizarre things is how so many (I would say, the VAST majority) smart people are unable to overcome it when discussing certain subjects. Like sure, I can certainly understand the initial incident, heuristics are a bitch...but what is so bizarre is that when people are in this state, there seems to be literally nothing that can draw them out of it. I have done many, many thousands of experiments in this area, it is uncanny.