The importance of objectivity (#1014)

Objectivity defined; "Judgment based on observable phenomena and uninfluenced by emotions or personal prejudices.-wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn. Not easily done since most of us see through the lens of our own concepts of right or wrong. Yet it is absolutely necessary for us to see the world through no filters of established thought/emotion or illogical prejudice. The thing is what it is regardless of what we apply to it as a definition. Objectivity gives us the clearest, truest informational starting point. We have what we have before us and the next observable step we take is to understand all the different realities it presents. We are all scientists since we have most if not all of our five senses and the ability to apply reasonable analysis toward a conclusion. We will not always have a definite conclusion but we should be able to move our understanding forward enough to know how to perceive what we are trying to understand. What happens instead is that the thing we are observing has connotations to us through pre-conceived notions or dogma. We stop short of objectivity and instead subjectively apply a category to the thing we have observed. Instead of treating the thing with innocence we have already pre-established a consequence. Most today who do not practice objectivity as a foundational principle have already shrunk their view of the world in order to have some illusory control over it. It is amazing that the appearance of being uncertain is seen as a detriment when in my mind the uncertainty should be seen as a value of being in a state of needing closer scrutiny. The arrogance that masks the subjective model is thin and only used by those who have fear as a genesis.