It's surprising how common the response of "it's just subjective!" gets thrown about whenever the topics of aesthetics, g(eneral intelligence) factor, or (even) ethics are discussed.
Those using this response seem to latch onto the notion that if a variable is too complex or too dynamic to be measured, then for all intents and purposes it either doesn't exist at all or that it produces the same effects no matter what values it contains.
When in reality the values at play in those topics were, and are, precisely the most decisive factors in our species' recent history.
All the things you've mentioned are either subjective or impossible to grasp and formalize by human beings. Probably your notion of not being subjective is to say subjective shit while pretending that it's all objective and rooted in ""reason""
Eli Richardson
they're not too complex or too dynamic, they're constructs we created that have no relation to the 'objective'. Why would it be surprising that people would point out to you that something which is the product of the way subjects relate to objects like aesthetics is subjective
Oliver Foster
Argument based on subjectivity is just philosophical laziness. Might as well go full sophist and claim nothing exists u can't prove me wrong.
Brody Myers
I don't even understand why saying "it's subjective" ends a discussion. If it is, who cares? It is still MY subjective perception and thus it's how I react to it. When talking about a book, or any piece of art I WANT to get people's subjective thoughts on it. Trying to be objective is boring; usually the "objective" opinion is often just the dominant subjective one.
Dominic Bell
>being honest is philosophical laziness Eh.
John Gutierrez
Here's your problem: you seem to be a well adjusted individual. You want to give your opinion and listen to other people's opinions, and at every moment you recognize these as such: opinions. The "it's subjective" usually trump another kind of argument: the one in which one tries to prove an objective with his own opinion, elevating it at universal truth. Basically people who want to say X is objectively better than Y while thinking they are absolutely, uncontroversially right.
Carter Cook
Your position presupposes being, "honesty", being, philosophy (it doesn't exist), and laziness.
Can't know nothing nuffin exist bitch boy.
David Thompson
I meant that going >full sophist and claim nothing exists u can't prove me wrong Is the most honest stance a philosopher can take.
Luke Sanders
>ethics and aesthetics are subjective Actually defending their subjectivity is as hard as defending their objectivity. Prove they are subjective. Tip: claiming there is no good arguments for their objectivity does not prove your point.
