Dragaera

OT: Subjectivity vs. Objectivity (was: bois...)

Fri Aug 16 17:37:44 PDT 2002

At 10:21 AM 8/16/2002 -0700, Nytemuse wrote:
>On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, Steven Brust wrote:
> > At 10:02 AM 8/16/2002 -0400, Starshadw at aol.com wrote:
> > >Who gets to decide what is a good change and what is a bad change??
> > Excellent question!
> > My own answer is: anyone who cares enough to argue about it.
>
>I think this kind of answers itself, as "good" and "bad" are rather
>subjective and/or personal terms.  By which I mean; what _I_ think is good
>may be bad to Mr. X down the street.

Well, sure.  But sometimes we can find objective criteria that determine 
whether we react to something as "good" or "bad."  This permits us to 
discuss those criteria, and, I hope, learn something from the discussion.