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No, earlier, you raised the comparison between "not ideal" and "objectively bad." You stated that the difference is not trivial. I took you to be acknowledging that white-and-white may not be ideal, but is still good, and not bad. I was responding to that.
I'm not saying that my single opinion reflects unimpeachable fact. I'm saying it doesn't matter how many people subscribe to one opinion over the other. You keep talking about convention, as if the number of people who adhere to a belief or practice somehow vindicates it. Even if I am the only one who thinks what I do, it doesn't make me wrong.
At any rate, I'm not asking anyone to simply accept my opinion because it's mine. I've gone on and on justifying it. If you don't agree, that's your prerogative. But this nonsense about whether my opinion is just an "opinion" or a claim to "fact," or whatever, is entirely a distraction. I've said what I've said. I assume if people have comments worth contributing, whether in agreement or dissent, they will voice them--rather than waste time on motive and character labeling.
You are trying to say that a look that you alone identify as ugly is in fact aesthetically objectively/intrinsically ugly. Unless you can make the case for some Archimedian point beyond nature as it is known and experienced by the rest of us, on which aesthetics rests, you have no basis for saynig that. Your response is nothing more than your taste/opinion.
No, earlier, you raised the comparison between "not ideal" and "objectively bad." You stated that the difference is not trivial. I took you to be acknowledging that white-and-white may not be ideal, but is still good, and not bad. I was responding to that.
I'm not saying that my single opinion reflects unimpeachable fact. I'm saying it doesn't matter how many people subscribe to one opinion over the other. You keep talking about convention, as if the number of people who adhere to a belief or practice somehow vindicates it. Even if I am the only one who thinks what I do, it doesn't make me wrong.
At any rate, I'm not asking anyone to simply accept my opinion because it's mine. I've gone on and on justifying it. If you don't agree, that's your prerogative. But this nonsense about whether my opinion is just an "opinion" or a claim to "fact," or whatever, is entirely a distraction. I've said what I've said. I assume if people have comments worth contributing, whether in agreement or dissent, they will voice them--rather than waste time on motive and character labeling.