Anarchopedia:Point of View

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• Most thinking is skewed; one of the ways this is achieved is to propose Point of View as a relative thing.
• The best ideas have less probability of being shared by the majority.
• One of the supports for the idea of PoV is the assumption of bias; this amounts to nothing more than "You would say that" (Tu Quoque). Obviously we want more people to learn more faster, but we should not be surprised if the people who most want to learn are those with the most vested interest.

Point of view is closely linked with Anarchopedia:Truth, which has links to here

Most of the thinking of the world's ruling class is skewed toward support of a murderous, damaging, unfair, inefficient and in many other ways erroneous system.

One of the ways this is achieved is to propose Point of View as a relative thing, and both sides of the political spectrum find this convenient; the Right obviously because it can never be challenged on moral grounds as long as morality is mere opinion, and the Left in fear of seeming unreasonable. However, this is an unnecessary compromise, and erroneous itself.

Wikipedia treats PoV, through Notability, as non-mainstream, which is patently absurd. There is no more statistical probability of the majority being right than there is that the majority will get A's in school. As this example shows, it is in fact the opposite; although views are not necessarily right because they are non-mainstream, either :) , the chances are that the best ideas will probably not be shared by the majority.

One of the supports for the idea of PoV is the assumption of bias; this amounts to nothing more than "You would say that" (Tu Quoque). It takes a great deal more work than is normally credited, to fill a mind, and impossible to fill it from things utterly outside one's personal experience. Personal experience makes firmer and more far-reaching neural pathways; if experience -living through certain events- or intentionally living -a certain way- is required to overcome the conditioning of mainstream society, then it is for the best, and there is no more benefit from criticizing this relationship between perception and truth than there is in criticizing any other useful process. Obviously we want more people to learn more faster, but we should not be surprised if the people who most want to learn are those with the most vested interest.

Balance

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"Balance" is to be avoided; a lie is not the other side of the truth, and the chances are infinitely small that both sides of an argument are of exactly equal worth

Balance with reference to Utility (A:Utility); while Truth is of uppermost importance, Balance is preferred; mostly because of Justice but Completeness is almost as important a rationale in this case

See also

• Anarchopedia:Consensus building
• Anarchopedia:Point of View shortcut A:POV
• Anarchopedia:Subjective
• Anarchopedia:Truth (shortcut A:T)
  • Balance A:T#B
• Anarchopedia:Utility (shortcut A:U)