Julia Ribeiro
Block 5

Do we and should we study human behavior objectively?

Even when we choose to talk about objectivity, we are biased. Without even knowing it, bias will always interfere with our studies, with our opinions, and what we know. Objectivity is never 100% objective due to our paradigms, our knowledge issues, and our perception. All that simultaneously are in the back of our minds taking us captive and preventing for us to shut down all our emotions and expand our paradigms. 
So do we study human behavior objectively? No. We will NEVER study human behavior objectively. We are humans - we've had past experiences, and emotions that can't be completely null because they shape the way we know. That was the easy question. That hard question to answer is the "should". 
There would be pros and cons to studying human behavior objectively. Studying human behavior would mean to get a big, ampler view on things, which has its benefits. Benefits such as knowing the finality of things, knowing (or thinking you do) all the facts, knowing the "two sides to the story", and jumping to conclusions yourself. Drawing naked, new conclusions can be good, because new means paradigm shift. But at the same time, drawing conclusions can have many drawbacks. Drawing conclusions without "stepping in the pond and getting dirty" could mean that you only think you understand the human behavior when in truth you don't. 
How can you KNOW a certain human behavior/culture if you choose to never experience that human behavior/culture? Your conclusions could be wrong, could be completely off and you wouldn't even know it. Without going through the experiences yourself, how can you ever form a proper opinion of that experience? You can't. It's like telling someone who just lost a parent, how "you know how their feeling" when both your parents are still alive. You can think you understand the pain they're going through, and you can empathize, but you don't REALLY understand. The little details that "are the trees that make up the giant forest" are un-known, and so far inexistent. So then.. do you really have a forest?