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I'd say there are subjective and objective indicators of quality, and that just because a lot of people like it doesn't make it a quality product, at least from a certain standpoint. Bud light is not a quality product from a flavor or obedient standpoint, but in terms of price, consistency, and marketing it's great.

But as someone who knows something about ice cream, I'd say B&J is a relatively high quality product. They use mostly good ingredients and that used to be very rare of nationally distributed ice cream.



> Bud light is not a quality product from a flavor ... standpoint

Says who? Who can tell everyone else what their preferred flavours should be?


Nobody is doing that. I, for example, like plenty of things that I recognize as low quality.


I'm not entirely sure that aesthetic realism isn't true.

Which, that's not to say that if someone were to have a different taste than the "objectively correct one" (assuming that one did exist) that they would be wrong to have it, but I consider it to plausible that someone's tastes (e.g. mine) could be in some proper sense, "incorrect".

There are a number of topics where I feel like, if aesthetic realism is true, my personal tastes probably do not really match up with the true taste.




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