Objectivity & subjectivity in relation to positivity & negativity

[Asolsutsesvyl]

As an abstract topic, objectivity and subjectivity in relation to positivity and negativity, may be further from matters in which concrete experience may lead to clear-cut views. I think that on examination, however, it branches out into smaller questions very close to practical matters in life, where views cluster more strongly into matters connected to ideology, culture, and more.

A main subtopic is that of honesty vs. dishonesty, and what it leads to. Honesty in mind, with oneself, is plainly a question of objectivity, or one of the ways in which a person can be objective. The ways in which this relate to social relations, honesty and dishonesty between people, and positive and negative dynamics, is more complex.

An easy argument for objectivity in social relations is that its absence isolates participants into irreconcilable bubbles, far more than is neccessary. If the external results are cared about, as opposed to purely being concerned with whether inwardly felt intentions were good or not within each isolated participant, then in practice there is no escaping caring about objectivity, if the approach is to be mentally coherent.

(With that conclusion, in theory most people seem to agree about most things. Exceptions include ideologies asserting that reality is a social construction to the point where questions of fact do not exist, and ideologies in which criteria at odds with logic are used to evaluate which facts are true, and similar, e.g. religious variations on that theme.)

As soon as "positivity vs. negativity" is looked at on a larger scale than an isolated individual, and takes more participants functioning as a whole into account, it becomes more difficult to separate the objectivity of participants from their positivity, though the relationship between the two is not necessarily simple.

In general, the type of honesty which is internal, and in turn that type of objectivity, would seem to be absolutely crucial for accommodating others. Without it, external honesty is reduced to something very superficial in its significance: internal dishonesty and external honesty can easily look like internal honesty and external dishonesty on the outside.