Is Impartiality Possible - Philosophical discussion - Biases effecting mindsets

Is it possible to be completely impartial?

I don’t think so because of the nature of our toolkit. We have individual perception relative to our accumulated biases and hindered by our imperfect data collection devices (ie senses). Subsequently our processing system suffers those same biases with an entirely new set of biases. Even if we are aware of those possibilities we tend to either erroneously feel we are personally impervious to those biases or over-correct to appear to show a lack of bias or perhaps trapped in an ideological mindset. If you were judging a Situation and you came up with a predetermined set of parameters in which to judge the situation before it happens you could argue that this would be an impartial judgement however I would question whether impartiality would be possible when setting the parameters in which to judge the situation. Even if the person Setting the parameters is different to the person judging the parameters you could surely be victim to the biases of each of these individuals. If a machine of impartiality could be designed, if a human’s appraisal of a situation fell in perfect union with the machine I would say it was due to good fortune rather than accurate assessment.



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