it's almost as if there is no "real" world... just millions of versions of the world and we just haven't got the mental power as living beings to see what is real and what is not. Logic and consensus are the only ways of ascertaining what is real and what isn't, but we can only ever know to the extent that experience gives us only a fuzzy and inaccurate picture of reality, and consensus is merely a diplomatic compromise with only logic and reason to back it up. To rely, however, on logic and reason leads to problems where one person concludes that anothers' experience is false. For example a psychiatrist concludes that a patients' experience of government conspiracy is a false experience - even though it's an experience the person has been having consistently for ten years - at the end of the day it's only one persons' point-of-view vs. another and logic is not self-affirming of the world, only self-contained (Subjectivism).
In the Sound of Silence in the Tao, silence is when a person can hear that small voice that speaks to us only when we are ready to hear. In order to hear this voice, people must be quiet, cease talking and really listen because it is solitude and in meditation when they are alone (the Sound of Silence). This proves that subjectivism is valid because people do not have the same inner voice due to person experience. Therefore, as human beings, moral judgment comes from within our own personal experience and that is what subjectivism is based on.
Most people listen to the silence because it teaches them from right and wrong. Within our society and culture is common for people to think about what they do and how they live. By listening to that inner voice, people analysis...
It has been thought television shows poke fun of how our society acts when we do not listen to that inner voice. For example, in the cartoon, the Simpsons, Lisa is the only character that represents what society is supposed to be by listening to the sound of silence.
From there, the show Seinfeld is another example of how people are impulsive by not listening to the inner voice that the silence brings. It shows the consequences of our actions when we do not give much thought in what we are doing. However, the majority of our society and culture encourages people to give into the silence and listen in order to make right choice unlike what the two shows represent of our country. Therefore, even television shows show that subjectivism has to exist in society in order to live properly and poke fun at people who do not live by those rules, which gives them freedom to use their own moral judgment.
Conclusion
In this paper, it is clear that people must have their own moral judgment because they do not experience the same things that make up their opinions. From there, due to these facts, subjectivism has to exist because people do not have the same feelings and ideas. Furthermore, subjectivism lies within the idea that there is not one moral code everyone.
References
Subjectivism in Ethics. 14 February 2008. http://academics.vmi.edu/psy_dr/subjectivism.htm
Subjectivism. 2008. 14 February 2008. http://www.humantruth.info/subjectivism.html
The Sound of Silence. 14 February 2008. http://www.isc.senshu-u.ac.jp/~thb0559/No2/TAO.htm
