dronester writes:
Yes, that may be true regarding the SAME exact event....
Are you admitting that people have different reactions to the same event and still claiming that they will have the same reaction to different events?
George and Jim have different reactions to A. George and Jim have different reactions to B. George prefers A, Jim prefers B. You seem to be claiming that George and Jim will objectively agree on either A or B.
dronester writes:
1. vanilla ice cream
or
2. dog-crap ice cream with broken glass shards (Baskin-Robbins unsuccessful 32nd flavor) ?
The problem here is that you're pre-loading your example. You have already decided that climbing Mount Everest is "more rewarding" than not climbing Mount Everest and you've deliberately picked an example where you know which choice most people would make. But you
don't know which choice people would make in the Mount Everest or not Mount Everest scenario.
A more honest example would be between chocolate ice cream and strawberry ice cream, or between visiting Paris or New York.
dronester writes:
My argument is about COMPARATIVE objective experiences.
Your argument is about subjective experiences.
dronester writes:
If you want to equivocate and argue that taking a crap in one's pants is an entirely subjective experience that CAN be just as deep/enlightening/rewarding/valuable as summiting Mount Everest, WITHOUT ADDING MORE QUALIFIERS such as "to a two-year-old," then be my guest.
You're the one who's adding the qualifiers. The whole example is yours and you've deliberately made it
seem like an obvious choice.
But unless you
assume that climbing Mount Everest is "more rewarding", you can not
conclude that it is.
Which is "more rewarding"? Climbing Mount Everest or climbing Mount Whitney? Or climbing Pike's Peak? Or climbing the Empire State Building? Put them in objective order of rewardingness.