Re: Are the Hugo Award Winners Boring Examples of SF?

On 2009-08-11 18:20:58 -0700, Eric Walker <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:

On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 09:11:17 -0700, Kurt Busiek wrote:

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"Hey, voting produces a result, so politics is objective!" Yeah, pull
the other one.

Um, the statement *in full* was:

Voting is objective: at the end, there is a definite, countable set of
results. What I presume was meant is that the voters are being
subjective, not objective in making their choices.

These exchanges would be shorter and fewer if what was written was read
before being responded to.

However, since you were making your supposed point in order to argue that if a lot of people vote the same way on some very broad comparison, then it's not merely that the result is countable, but that the field itself is objective. Your example of this was beauty, but it would apply to politics, too.

In short, you were spouting nonsense, and having been caught at it, you want to pretend your comment wasn't meant as a point in the larger discussion, but was a non sequitor.

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