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Originally Posted by diane_phaneuf
Who decides on what is great? and how do they get to decide that?
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Me, because I generally know what I'm talking about or I shut up. I also have an infallible method for detecting if you have no idea what you're talking about - just make a claim that "well that's my opinion and it's just as good as anyone else's". That kind of claim pretty well confirms the claimant is clueless about whatever he or she is opining upon.
The problem with saying everyone's opinion is equally valid is that "valid" means something other than "unprovable"; error lies in assuming that because you can't PROVE something to be true, you also can't say anything about the likelihood of it being true or false. I can't "prove" that Jack White is a better guitarist than I am, but since I can't play the guitar at all, any listener who was presented with both his and my interpretation of a song on the guitar, and who proceeded to like my version better would in all likelihood be a very poor judge of guitar prowess and would be in all likelihood wrong to claim I was the "better" player.