You learn something every day, it seems, and a word previously unknown to me - coined by an American

philosopher - entered my existence the other day, chiming with much of what I note around me these days.

That word is "emotivism".  It describes a state of mind that views things when a need or wish to see them a

certain way takes precedence of fact.  The personal moral choice of what an individual would like to see overwhelms the actuality to affect judgement and opinion, to the extent of manipulating or even ignoring

or denying fact to suit a personally preferred position.

Emotivism knows no class or boundaries and can be detected, sometimes with concentrated care, in many

aspects of life today.  Another "ism" but one which certainly deserves as much attention as the others that

exist nowadays.  Keep it in mind.  Others most certainly do.