(properties which you'd have to specify) — Terrapin Station
and that it has no other connotation, such as a positive or negative connotation, or a normative connotation or anything like that? — Terrapin Station
When applied to people, 'heavy' has a negative connotation. — The Great Whatever
but after reading at least a couple thousand manga, I think that maybe like four were good. — Wosret
Why go this far to defend Marvel films though? It was just an example, and why are they worth defending anyway? — The Great Whatever
I guess we can just decide not to hold ourselves to any standards and just live like plebs and animals, but that sounds lame, I'll choose a better worldview. — The Great Whatever
As you can see, Harrison Ford can't act. Movies with actors that can't act are bad. So the movie is bad. This is objectively observable as much as a rock's weight. — The Great Whatever
I reckon I can find a more sophisticated assessment than that, and which contradicts yours - even if it accepts that Harrison Ford doesn't act well in the movie. Would that one be objective or not? If so, then yours would be wrong. — Sapientia
I don't buy that the subjective plays no part in these assessments. It can influence them. Calling yours objective is suspicious, to say the least. — Sapientia
And all I really get from you is that you don't see it that way, and have a different lifestyle, and you disapprove, and think that others who don't share your way of seeing things or your lifestyle are inferior, and that they should adopt your personal way of seeing things and your lifestyle.
I think that that's narrowminded and arrogant. — Sapientia
And @csalisbury, even if you're right in what is basically a charge of hypocrisy against me, that has no bearing on my criticism of The Great Whatever (cf. Tu quoque).
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