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Originally Posted by Brad Stengel
The other thing to consider is: If music really is completely subjective, why then on this forum are groups frequently referred to as inferior/bad. For example, if everyone truly believed it was all subjective, would those two new grunge kids get any crap?
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Sure. Subjectively, lots of people think the taste of the two people you mention is poor. But that doesn't mean there's any objective Truth about it. It's just another popularity issue. In communities like this, there are biases towards some kinds of music and against others.
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hit one gives another person for their taste really speaks to how confrontational one is, not to some de facto evidence of objective differences.
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Its another big point Im trying to make, in a discussion like this its much easier to argue that no music is really better, its all a matter of taste-but this is rarely practiced by anyone, here, or anywhere.
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Pity, yes. I think the "you're f
ucking crazy if you believe X is better than Y" style doesn't do much to advance interesting discussion. However, in my opinion, music is highly bound up in personal identity for big music fans, so they feel a greater sense of outrage or threat when confronted by an opposing viewpoint on a music issue they feel passionate about. That tends to lead to confrontational discussion rather than tolerant discussion.
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