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Comment author: kodos96 10 October 2010 07:18:35PM 0 points [-]

OK, since I'm writing this on LW after all, I guess it's time to recognize that I've long passed the boundary from rational argument to an impassioned propagandistic defense of my own view in a value- and taste-laden controversy.

Well yeah, obviously this entire conversation has been about totally subjective questions of taste. Nothing wrong with that though, as long as no one is fooling themselves into thinking it's something other than that.

Comment author: Vladimir_M 10 October 2010 08:07:01PM 0 points [-]

kodos96:

Well yeah, obviously this entire conversation has been about totally subjective questions of taste. Nothing wrong with that though, as long as no one is fooling themselves into thinking it's something other than that.

Still, I think that it makes sense to ask whether traditional or modernist architecture on average does a better job creating spaces that will satisfy the subjective tastes of the majority of people, for which the best evidence are people's revealed preferences and attitudes. In this sense, there is an objective question here after all.