the brutal simplicity of demanding proof for all things

this relentless demand for empirical verification, for 'proof' in a purely scientific sense, has poisoned our ability to address fundamental injustices. we reduce human suffering, systemic oppression, and moral wrongs to questions of data points, dismissing anything that resists easy quantification as 'metaphysical' or irrelevant. this isn't objectivity; it's a dangerous intellectual laziness. it serves those who benefit from the status quo, demanding explicit evidence for harm while their own exploitative systems operate on unquestioned assumptions. we ignore the qualitative, the felt experience, the deep moral intuition because it cannot be fed into an algorithm. it's an outrage.