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Nope. This is a typical categorical fallacy: nobody can ever truly achieve the ideal, therefore everyone is equally flawed and we should stop judging others.

Do people often lack self-awareness and accuse others of things for which they are equally culpable? Sure. But objective reality does, in fact, exist and therefore it is possible to identify objective standards and judge people according to their performance along them.



objective reality does, in fact, exist

Maybe. https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25233590-800-the-quan...


... only when people agree on their hallucinations.

Summary of a talk by brain researcher Anil Seth: https://youtu.be/a54QHJYC8lM




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