No strawman. He said (being and experience are basically art) and (art is always subjective). That’s not about preferences. That’s a claim about reality itself.
Then he used quantum physics to argue experience can’t be duplicated, as if that proves meaning is subjective. He wasn’t making a narrow claim. He was making a universal one.
But even your charitable read fails claiming (there are no objective rules for what makes life meaningful or fulfilling) is like saying there are no objective rules for what makes a fish thrive. Try raising one outside water and call it subjective interpretation.
Either all meaning is subjective (self refuting), or human flourishing has no objective standard (ignores human nature). Pick one.
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I’m not claiming nothing, I know fucking nothing.
Having fun in life’s mystery though, less hate more love.
Up to you if you want to claim that to be an objective truth, I think it is.😎🤙
"You’re borrowing from objective truth (free will matters, truth exists, the universe “works” a certain way) while denying objective truth exists."
Creation is predicated upon will. Creation exists. Therefore the Creator desires for Creation to exist. Creation exists because being in a state of omniscience as a singularity is boring. There is no novelty and no discovery. Those experiences only occur in beings with finite, limited perspective who are self-aware.
There are objective truths.
There are objective rules for what makes life meaningful. Every religion has a variation of the Golden Rule.
Do you know why?
Because most humans SUCK at abiding the Golden Rule.
If we were nailing the Golden Rule, every religion wouldn't be trying to teach it to us. That would be redundant.
The "rule" that HODL came up with is wrong. You already agreed that he should have worded the initial post differently, yet you continue to argue moot side points.
Why?