Saturday, January 16, 2010

The Poison of Subjectivism

The poison of subjectivism is the poison that we have of reason. We try to reason about ourselves and using our own reason. But just like a measuring stick must be independent of what we are measuring our reason must be separate of what we are reasoning about.

Someone can say that they are rationale human beings and that they are right. But from their perspective everything else looks incorrect if they use themselves as a standard. Which is why we need a standard that is better than ourselves like the ten commandments.

If we based our courts. or really any justice system off of just one person or really any human it would be unfair and, well, subjective. We need an impartial and perfect judge to lay down our laws so that our justice system can be completely fair.

We can't be subjective about how we treat others. It would result in someone being unfairly treated. This is a case of needing to look at ourselves and at the way we treat each other. If we look along we will be compelled to get justice through our perspective.

1 comment:

  1. You present an interesting idea about having a standard for reason.

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