On 1/30/2013 10:05 PM, Andrew Fildes wrote:
> It's the Democratic Fallacy - just because most people think it's good, that
> doesn't make it good.
> Amazing how many people don't understand that.
Oh, My!
Gotta disagree. Taste is entirely arbitrary, a product of social custom, norms,
opinion. There is indeed often a
difference between the then current, largely inherited, taste of the elite(s)
and that of the hoi polloi. But neither is
an absolute.
Nor does/can an absolute exist, which says one thing, sound, etc. is somehow
inherently of greater value than another.
It is entirely possibly to make a correct statement that I prefer one thing
over another, as long as that value
judgement is understood to be mine, or that of my family, tribe, class, etc.
etc.
Same fallacy that underlies so much religious dogma and practice, the idea that
who or whatever created everything
prefers some aspects of that creation over others, and bothers to reward or
punish some parts on the basis of what they
are or do.
At least believers in God or some other higher being/force, have an apparently
logical basis for their opinions, the
putative statements of their God. Those who do not believe in a supreme being,
power, whatever, have no basis whatsoever
for considering their tastes absolute. Other than egotism, personal or
collective, of course. :-)
I have strong tastes and opinions, but don't believe them to be absolute.
Absolutely Not Moose
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