Comment on So...how the fuck do I trust *anything*?

morphballganon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

You’re touching on the idea of a “truth baseline” as I call it. How do you know what’s real vs bullshit?

My truth baseline is that maintaining the habitability of Earth is good. From that, I can deduce the following:

Etc. See where this is headed?

The ambiguity of whether someone is good or not is due to goodness being a subjective quality. There is no such thing as objective good. The closest thing to objective good we can attain is sustainability.

The same can be said about truth. If you want something objective, that’s called fact. Truth is a subjective perception of facts. Thus… there is no one correct truth. Just an openness to adjust to new information while dismissing those who are opposed to your truth baseline.

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