Objectivity

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Claim

Objectivity means to become and to be viewed as an object. It is to lose all Some things matter for what they are not what they do value and only be seen through the Instrumental value treats things as means rather than ends value. It is the focus on the "concrete natural facts". Subjectivity

Explanation

Often, to be an object, or to be viewed as one, is the same process of dehumanization, to have lower Moral worth or responsibility, down to the level of an animal or an inanimate object.

Therefore, an object, is also something that is fixed, unchanging, again like a rock that will forever be the same.

Why it matters

Examples

For example, to focus on a person's indisputable, often quantitative aspects such as their age, height, sex, ethnicity, IQ, etc, as opposed to looking at the qualitative, relative aspects of his life such as dreams, values, etc...

This can also be self inflicted. Often people with Fixed mindset assumes capabilities are unchangeable from birth treat themselves as an object, not necessarily in terms of low Self-worth is accurate assessment of your capabilities, but by thinking that they can't change, they treat themselves as something fixed, immutable.

Supporters

Often it is connected with the process of Commodification turns non-tradable values into economic transactions, that we are seen as products or tools to be used, rather than as people. Similarly, when we dedicate ourselves completely for a cause, "forgetting ourselves", or becoming a member of a herd, we become an object to be used for a "greater process", at the potential cost of self destruction.

It is to turn ourselves into Multidimensional identity collapses into single fixed characteristic, to see ourselves as just one thing, permanent and unchanging.

Opposers

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Overview

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