When someone says “there’s no such thing as objectivity”, they only mean that no one else has objectivity. Clearly, they don’t believe that about themselves, or they wouldn’t be offering this very proposition, which masquerades as objective. What they mean is, “My ideas aren’t subject to superior arguments from anyone else. I’m immune to tests of logic, because your arguments are subjective.(no word about their own).” They just don’t have the courage to say that – so now you know what kind of person you’re dealing with. This kind of talk usually precedes some goofy biorhythmic aura nonsense that, if you don’t accept with wide-eyed awe like Charlie Manson was filling your head with wisdom, you’ll be told that you’re not enlightened enough, you have a reptilian brain, or some other thing that means your thoughts are subjective and, of course, the wisdom being imparted is objective (immune to criticism or skepticism). No one really believes there’s nothing objective, or else to walk out into traffic would be the same as to stand on the curb would be the same as flying around with Peter Pan in mushroom land. People that really believe nothing is objective die quick deaths, and their philosophy dies with them, because it’s not livable.
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