Objects are not subject to old age, disabilities, or illnesses. They can only break, but so can humans.
Some of the most treasured and valuable things in the world are objects. (the Mona Lisa, computers, money, etc.)What's wrong with being seen as an ''object''?
Because people are not objects.
I don't care how treasured the Mona Lisa is. The Mona Lisa is a painting, not a person. Someone owns The Mona Lisa. No one owns me but me.
I don't care about the advantages of being an object. ';No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.';
Friedrich NietzscheWhat's wrong with being seen as an ''object''?
What did the tool say?
I never listen to them, they aren't good for much besides sex. ;)
A living being should never be seen as an object! but statues paintings etc.. should be seen as what they are, nothing but an artists impression of what he or she See's at a snapshot in time.
Actually, the notion of ';objectification'; is problematic in many ways. The human body IS an object. It is also a PERSON.
The issue with which those who speak of ';objectification'; are concerned is that the personhood is denied or minimized, that human worth is reduced to the human BODY'S worth and as a body, it exists only in relation to the feelings, desires, beliefs, and intentions of other persons. The human body, qua object, is not recognized as having feelings, desires, beliefs, and intentions of its own.
Objectification is often conflated with aesthetic appreciation, but not all aesthetic appreciation of the body denies that the body is also a person. And objectification is in fact a matter of degree... the subtext of recognizing that it IS a person being TREATED as an object is part of the desire to see degradation, humiliation, and domination that, e.g. some pornography appeals to.
An ';object'; is not a human being. You don't have to ask permission from an object to use it or do something to it. I imagine you would care a lot if you were treated like this.
You shouldn't look at ';objectification'; as literally turning a person in to an object. People who are objectified are still subject to old age, illness, etc. ';Objectification'; instead refers to ceasing to respect a person's autonomy, and instead seeing them as a means to your ends, much like computers and money are. Slaves used to be treated as objects. Animals still are.
the mona lisa, computers, and money ARE objects. Humans are not.
Objects don't have feelings. People do. And negative emotions can be self-destructive or destructive toward others, depending on how they are expressed.
Idiot
Would you want to be looked upon as an OBJECT. Soemthing that could be THROWN AWAY, Soemthing that could be BEATEN AND HURT. An OBJECT ISN'T HUMAN.
Everyone human deserves HUMAN RIGHTS regardless of their gender, race, ethnicity, religion ETC ETC
You shud know that..
It denies humanity.
Mona lisa may smile, but she smiles because a man painted her to do so, not because she is expressing her human emotion.
Its too shallow... it makes you feel like a tool. A nameless, faceless, ';thing';. Who you are and what you are about becomes unimportant. Its like being a car. I'm a person.. not a thing.
Objects are something people own NO-ONE owns me!
Um... because we are human beings with feelings, wants, and needs?
I'm waiting to be seen as a sex object !!
So, objectify away !
';Some of the most treasured and valuable things in the world are objects';
Thats just it, friend. I'M NOT A THING. I like to look at pretty things. Not be a pretty thing.
Objectification denies a person's humanity.
Jews, Gypsies, Homosexuals, etc. were denied their humanity during the Holocaust.
Slaves were denied their humanity.
You can't really see this as a ';good thing';, or even a ';neutral'; thing if you REALLY understand the concept, and all of it's implications.
Objects have no rights. They are merely possessions, to be acted upon. No human should be thought of as an ';object.';
There is something awesomely distinct and different between
alive humans and inanimate objects. Humans have skills, memory, can solve problems, etc, etc.
I would consider it both the ultimate insult and the product of a rather dead brain to consider a person an object.
The ';dead brain'; is has probably been overpowered by young hormones. Hopefully this is a temporary death, the young man saved by more maturity.
People would see me as a piece of poor contemporary art rather than a seascape by Turner. I wouldn't want that.
As you know...objects are not human...most of us want to be treated as human beings...that's what's wrong.
Having said that....there are ';times'; when some of us don't mind being treated as a ';sex object';...but that desire lasts until we fall asleep, exhausted from the throes of passion...when we wake up in the morning...we want to be treated with respect and adoration...like a human being, not an object.
now....tell me you'd like to be treated like a painting or a watch.
People tend to see objects in a selfish way: in terms of use value and as property. Not really good qualities for relationships between humans. This is a philosophy question though. If you mean 'objectification', I can't answer.
EDIT: This is a lost battle now. Just let it go. You're making a fool of yourself.
That's all well and good, but we're PEOPLE, with brains and hearts and mouths.
In tech college I was looked upon as a sex object, so much so that most guys tripped over their own two feet to ask me out on a date. My only danger was allowing it to go to my head, which I never did; managed to keep my head on straight; came quite useful I'll give you that. The only part I hated was allowing myself to be talked into entering a beauty contest, truthfully I felt like a slap of meat or sex for sale; incidentally my convincers goal was to lay me after it was over; no he didn't get to far either..
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