There's an old joke that goes:
He: Would you sleep with me for a million dollars?
She: Yes.
He: Would you sleep with me for $20?
She: What kind of girl do you think I am?
He: We've already established that... now we're just haggling over the price.
One of the biggest ironies out there is that certain people believe that no beliefs are objective.
Think about that one for a minute...
The flaw is, that claim is itself a belief. If it objectively true, it is false. If it's false, it's... false. This is what is known as a self-contradiction.
The most obvious self-contradiction is, "there are no absolutes." To which the simplest refutation is to ask, "absolutely none?" (If the statement was always true, it's an absolute and false. If it's false, it's false. Either way, absolutes exist).
The point is, by making such a claim, the person has acknowledged the existence of objective truth... what is left is discovering what the objective truth is.
Trying to deny that is simply trying to ignore reality.
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