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<blockquote data-quote="Sunseeker" data-source="post: 7281327">And you may have just gained some insight into my mind.In short: I'm not saying you can't criticize something, but opinion-based criticism, which is the stock-and-trade of many organizations that review literature, music and movies, are still opinions.&nbsp; They may have some grounded facts among them, but by and large their opinions cater towards a certain audience.&nbsp; And they are still subjective.Calling something &quot;lazy&quot; is on the extreme end of subjective opinions.&nbsp; A well-established review agency like the Nobel Committee can be generally believed to have a well-founded and well-rounded knowledge of the technical side, as well as be trusted to have a reasoned subjective opinion.The term lazy carries no such connotations.&nbsp; It's definition is at the whimsy of the speaker.&nbsp; You may think less than 10 hours of work is lazy.&nbsp; I may think less than 5 hours of work is lazy.&nbsp; The creator we're criticizing may have spent 10 seconds in creating a work we both consider &quot;not lazy&quot;.&nbsp; At the end of it all, the term is too subjective to be appropriate for any sort of common discourse.&nbsp; That's my point.&nbsp; Not that you can't critique something, not that you can't use opinions to do it, but that some opinions are too opinionated.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Sunseeker, post: 7281327"] And you may have just gained some insight into my mind. In short: I'm not saying you can't criticize something, but opinion-based criticism, which is the stock-and-trade of many organizations that review literature, music and movies, are still [I]opinions[/I]. They may have some grounded facts among them, but by and large their opinions cater towards a certain audience. And they are [I]still [/I]subjective. Calling something "lazy" is on the extreme end of subjective opinions. A well-established review agency like the Nobel Committee can be generally believed to have a well-founded and well-rounded knowledge of the technical side, as well as be trusted to have a reasoned subjective opinion. The term lazy carries no such connotations. It's definition is at the whimsy of the speaker. You may think less than 10 hours of work is lazy. I may think less than 5 hours of work is lazy. The creator we're criticizing may have spent 10 seconds in creating a work we both consider "not lazy". At the end of it all, the term is [I]too [/I]subjective to be appropriate for any sort of common discourse. That's my point. Not that you can't critique something, not that you can't use opinions to do it, but that some opinions are [I]too[/I] opinionated. [/QUOTE]

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