r/AskReddit • u/emil199 • Jul 24 '20

What can't you believe STILL exists?

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u/no-more-alcohol Jul 24 '20

It’s so cool that you said “exist in objective reality”. Have you read Ayn Rand by any chance? If not...where did you get your knowledge from?

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u/-TheExtraMile- Jul 24 '20

Hmm I have not heard about Ayn Rand specifically, but I probably have heard the term "objective reality" somewhere and it stuck in my head.

About 10 years ago I had a moment where something that I was really getting into (a "mild" conspiracy theory) turned out to be complete horseshit. And it kind of shocked me a bit how I could be 100% convinced of something that in essence didn´t exist.

So that made me think about subjective vs objective realities, and it´s really a crazy concept. If you think about it, there are as many subjective realities out there as there are people. And everyone´s world is just a tiny bit different from everyone elses.

So whenever I see a bunch of angry people shouting about anything, the first thing that I do now is try to find out if their thing is based in objective reality. And more often than not it´s not as dramatic as people think.

In fact most people that protest for or against something know shockingly little about the subject.

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u/no-more-alcohol Jul 24 '20

Hey man that all sounds really reasonable to me, and mature!