I was thinking about the use of “scientific socialism” and “objective reality”: I think there is pretty clearly such a thing as reality, and many aspects of reality are not subjective. Like you can’t say “in my opinion the people Israel/America just blew up are actually still alive” and be taken seriously; Reality contradicts that opinion.
But, people’s feelings are very much a part of that objective reality. The grief and torment people feel, the void in their lives where the people who were taken from them should have been, those are real and that pain matters immensely. That pain destroys lives. That pain gives people incurable PTSD. That pain tortures people. That pain drives people to suicide. That pain poisons the rest of their lives. To argue that it is irrational to take people’s feelings into account is bad methodology at best, evil at worst.
I was thinking about the use of “scientific socialism” and “objective reality”: I think there is pretty clearly such a thing as reality, and many aspects of reality are not subjective. Like you can’t say “in my opinion the people Israel/America just blew up are actually still alive” and be taken seriously; Reality contradicts that opinion.
But, people’s feelings are very much a part of that objective reality. The grief and torment people feel, the void in their lives where the people who were taken from them should have been, those are real and that pain matters immensely. That pain destroys lives. That pain gives people incurable PTSD. That pain tortures people. That pain drives people to suicide. That pain poisons the rest of their lives. To argue that it is irrational to take people’s feelings into account is bad methodology at best, evil at worst.