Re:Zen and the Art of Software Maintenance
by coldtea on Saturday October 26, 2019 @08:11AM
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>Obviously taste is subjective
Subjective as in it's up to the individual person whether it likes or doesn't like something.
But it can also be of objectively variable quality (eg. someone liking Vanilla Ice's work who can't stand Bach or Coltrane).
Taste is not something passive and "everything goes" just because it's subjective. It's also something that can be cultivated (even in food -- imaging someone crazy about Hot Pockets, McDonalds and Taco Bell, who doesn't like cooked food because it "tastes bad"). It's a little heresy to say that someone's individual taste is not sacrosanct but can be objectively crap in the US, but it's much more acceptable in good ole Europe.
Subjective as in it's up to the individual person whether it likes or doesn't like something.
But it can also be of objectively variable quality (eg. someone liking Vanilla Ice's work who can't stand Bach or Coltrane).
Taste is not something passive and "everything goes" just because it's subjective. It's also something that can be cultivated (even in food -- imaging someone crazy about Hot Pockets, McDonalds and Taco Bell, who doesn't like cooked food because it "tastes bad"). It's a little heresy to say that someone's individual taste is not sacrosanct but can be objectively crap in the US, but it's much more acceptable in good ole Europe.