First of all, this is totally off-topic, but you should go watch Spider-man: Homecoming. You might be thinking “oh, it’s just another reboot, I’m tired of them”. But this time, it’s linked to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and they actually did it right. The Tobey Maguire Trilogy was okay, and the Andrew Garfield one was pretty bad (according to me), but this one is a huge success. They finally casted a teenager to play one, the story makes sense, and that Peter Parker is straight out of the comics as for personality, style, snarky remarks, etc. I would go as far as to say this is the best movie in the entire MCU to date. It is that good. Seriously, go watch it. I’ve never seen a superhero movie, whether it is Marvel, DC or Fox (X-men and Deadpool), that was as good as this one.

You’re walking in the street. You walk past an homeless person. They ask if you have some spare change. You have a few coins lying around, so you give it to them.

You’re walking in the street. You walk past an homeless person. They ask if you have some spare change. You beat them up, kill them, and throw their body in a lake.

You’re walking in the street. You walk past an homeless person. They ask if you have some spare change. You tell them to wait 5 minutes, you go to the nearest ATM, get 10 dollars from one of your thousands of dollars accounts, and give it to them.

You’re walking in the street. You walk past an homeless person. They ask if you have some spare change. You know you have a few dollars in your pocket, and a ton of money in the bank, but you still say no because you don’t want to stop walking and lose some of your precious time.

You’re walking in the street. You walk past an homeless person. They ask if you have some spare change. You go buy a few sandwiches from the nearest convenience store, and give it to them.

In one specific situation, you can react in several different ways. I’d say some of them are nice, while some others are being a dick. If you had to rate those on a scale of 0 to 10, 0 being totally evil while 10 being super nice, what would their ratings be?

Now try to change a little bit the context. The homeless person no longer explicitly asks you anything, they are sleeping on the sidewalk when you walk past them. How would that change your ratings?

Now, what if that person first tries to steal your wallet, and upon failing, ask you nicely for some money?

I guess my point is, the morality of any action seems to have some level of dependency on the context, specifically on the action that would be expected in that situation. Yet, if we look at anything with objectivity, the entire idea of “deserving” something should not make the act itself better or worse. The universe doesn’t care how many people you have killed (except if you believe in supernaturally enforced Karma I guess), so you getting arrested or killed shouldn’t be objectively better than anyone else. The reason is that the universe, provided it is neither a sentient being or monitored by sentient beings, is completely unaware of what happened prior to an action. That is literally the only way it could be objective. Killing a random person on the street, and figuring out later that this was a mass murderer on the run, shouldn’t make your own random murder any less one.

So being objective, at all, means literally having no morality. You can’t possibly judge anything objectively, because the very act of judging requires you to have more knowledge about the event than objectivity would imply.

So to all the people, including me most of the time, who claim to be objective about literally anything as if this was a good thing, you are either lying (knowingly or not), or it’s not a good thing at all. Judging anything objectively means doing it with absolutely no knowledge of anything even remotely related to the event except the event itself, which, I think, is the worst way to judge anything.

Usually, when a post goes in circles like this one without any clear direction and even I don’t know what my point is, it gets saved as a draft and forgotten in the abyss that is this blog’s admin panel. You’d be surprised how many posts I start writing thinking they’ll become interesting, yet end up throwing them away because they feel boring or dumb. Maybe I should start planning ahead instead of improvising. This is one of those posts where I started writing because I thought it would lead to something interesting, but as more I write, the more I realise I don’t really have a point. If I went any further, this would turn into random rambling (you might already think it is), so I’ll end it here. Let’s say it’s a thought experiment and call it a day. I might as well try to write a short useless thought-experiment-ish ending sentence, so that the entire thing seems less improvised.

So why exactly are you proud of being objective?