[ SECRET POST #6285 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6285 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

But given the possibility that someone may only have received negative exposure to a given thing, it's not really reasonable for them to think that because they haven't seen a good iteration of it, then it means that no good iterations of it exist. It's one thing to say, "I haven't seen this done well;" it's another to say, "it's never done well."

[(Anonymous)]

That's true! It just wasn't the point I was getting to up there. Tbh I agreed that most people do equate their own opinions to truth (which would be the case here, the opinion that "I haven't seen it done well" as meaning "it is never, ever done well") -- my issue was that in criticizing the secret for doing it, the anon pretty much... Just did the same. Hence why they can have an opinion -- as I can, as the OP can, as anyone can and even should -- but if you're going to say that opinion =/= truth, then at least walk the walk and don't make it sound like your opinion can be the truth while that of others cannot. We can't have it both ways.

[(Anonymous)]

Hmm. I think we tend to want it both ways, don't we? Whether we recognize that opinion =/= truth depends largely on whether we agree with the opinion, and not so much on any general principle.

Something I'm thinking about now, as well, is that it's very sticky business to suss out the difference between an opinion and a truism about human behavior. So, for example, I'm sort of doing the thing above, right? I'm saying, "we do this, as humans," which is an observation that may or may not hold true when broadly applied -- and yet it is an observation based on experience, just as "romance is done poorly" is an observation based on OP's experience. I think this means, perhaps, that we're all unreasonable, and we're all only ever grasping a small slice of the truth, if any piece of it at all. But that's going far afield.