What would it take to make SaidIt a judgement free platform?

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[–]EpsteinIsHung[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

We are able to demonstrate other realities... take dreams for example. Clearly we are conscious and live in a "reality", but that reality isn't the same one as we currently exists. And since perception creates reality, if an individual perceives their world to exist in multiple realities simultaneously, this is the reality that they live in and created for themselves.

Demonstrating or lack of demonstrating something doesn't make something true or untrue however. My point still stands. We should be able to accept and see the realities of others that we don't believe in, without making judgements about those realities.

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I reject your premise. Perception does not create reality. Things you do not perceive still exist and, for example, can harm you. An unseen snake is still a snake. Therefore, since they exist independent of perception, your claim this demonstrates other realities remains unsupported.

[–]EpsteinIsHung[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The moment the individuals perception adjusts to the existence of the snek, their reality shifts to a more accurate but a scary one. The reality that the individual lives in, is completely created by their perception.

If we are talking about a reality outside of the individual or observer, perhaps it's not the perception that creates it. But as for humans, our perception creates our reality.

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You're combining the objective with the subjective and obfuscating your meaning by switching between the two arbitrarily. When I say "reality" I am referring to that which exists independent of perception. Things that are dependent upon perception cannot be said to exist in the same sense. A person whose perceptions more accurately align to reality, that which is, is the more correct one and whose opinions will be more valid with respect to what is real. Perceptions may feel real to the perceiver, but that is not what we mean when we say "real". Until they are demonstrated to actually exist they're nothing more than imaginings.