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How very telling that you deny objectivity and then you go on to cite 4 examples where we should accept your objective, universal assertions, where you presume
by AStonesThrow 2y ago
How very telling that you deny objectivity and then you go on to cite 4 examples where we should accept your objective, universal assertions, where you presume to speak for all of Paris, and every tourist and pilgrim to behold these beautiful sites!
I am pleased that you and the entire world uniformly consider Paris objectively beautiful, and I have no choice but to abandon my foolish, subjective judgements!
(Pro tip: symbols aren't expected to be beautiful or attractive, as long as they're accurate. Consider a long list of ugly and repulsive symbolism and synechode. Everyone knows that the Venus de Milo's arms were taken, and that's a reason for its fame.)
There is no shortage of people who are offended and repulsed by beautiful objects. Something or someone can be quite objectively beautiful, good and true, yet be considered unwanted or distasteful. Perhaps contemporary Parisians were more rankled by the excessive progress, destruction, and upheaval, than the architecture in itself? Greeks and others maintain ruins of formerly beautiful sites, in deplorable condition, yet people still visit the ugly pile of rocks?