Objectively Subjective

What do you see?

Have you ever obstinately refused to do something merely because a certain person suggested it? What did that do for your relationship? (Serendipity Bible 10^th Anniversary Edition, page 1027).

This is very typical of my behavior.  If Fox News were to say that heaven awaited if I only wore white, you can be sure I would wear black.  I very much consider the source of assertions and am prone to dismiss any statement of fact or opinion from a source that I do not find credible.

This serves to simplify my world greatly.  I do not bother to consider seriously any proposal made from a suspect source.  I don't have to “waste energy” in careful evaluation, judgment, and the maintenance of objectivity.  As I am likely to uncritically reject some sources, I am likely to uncritically accept those whom I feel credible.  I say “feel” intentionally rather than “think” for emotions are very much tied up in it.  Ironically, sources that I distrust the most are those who claim to have absolute objectivity.  Objectivity is something that is evasive and the principal danger is in assuming we have it.





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