| There is always a bias in assertions, because they come from a person, and people are biased about everything. In order to have an opinion about something you have made a decision about it. Further, in making your decision you have rejected other decisions you could have made, so you are no longer capable of objectively thinking about them (imo). Finally, you are naturally biased in favor of your decision. The decision making process is a highly idiosyncratic and subjective process, I think. Only machines, possibly, have the capacity to be truly objective. People can try to be objective, but after you've made a decision about something, I don't think you can claim that. Just looking at things and trying to make observations without bringing personal and subjective predilections to bear on those observations is the closest to objective we, as humans, get. But you are not doing that. IMO. You want your moral decisions to be objective. That is a strange thing to reach for, I think. But that is just my opinion. |
