In Response to Jacob's Question (Week 3)

All human beings are biased. Each individual has a preference for one thing over another especially in the context of comparisons. It is natural for people to make judgments based off of similar things they can compare an event, situation, or object to. Human bias derives from an individual’s learning history. The knowledge acquired throughout a person’s life influences his or her thoughts on a daily basis regardless of whether or not the individual is consciously aware that he or she is being directly influenced by his or her past. Because a person’s learning history directly influences thought processes on a daily basis, I do not think that it is humanly possible to exist even temporarily in a state of unbias. A state of unbias is impossible to come across because in order to be completely objective a person would have to have absolutely no learning history of anything because everything known influences any judgment to be made by the individual. When making judgments, a person should attempt to be as unbiased as possible. The state of perfect objectivity cannot exist, but being as close to objective as possible is ideal when making judgments, especially towards aesthetics. Is everything equally difficult to attempt to remain objective about? Or are there some things that exist which are easier to remain objective about than others? Do you think that it depends on the individual or are there a few universal things which are easier to remain objective towards than others?