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I disagree. Here is the relevant difference: if you're using "special" unconditionally, you're only expressing a fuzzy opinion which is just that, an opinion. To get to the level of facts you need to make your "special" conditional on some specific standard or metric and thus convert it into a measurement.
It's still the same as saying that prettiness of roses is objective. Unconditionally, it's not. But if you want to, you can define 'prettiness' sufficiently precisely to make it a measurement and then you can objectively talk about prettiness of roses.
Indeed. The difference being that humans don't all have the same prettiness-metrics, which is why the comparison fails.
Humans all have the same specialness metrics?? I don't think so.