I know that is a weird question, but it was prompted by the experience of an elementary school teacher. One day, while teaching a particular lesson, she asked the question, “Is the truth true for everyone. Thinking the answer was obvious, she was shocked to discover that many of her students thought that truth was different for different people. But it is not only kids that have been confused.
Traditionally, philosophers have defined truth as, “that which corresponds with reality.” The teacher simplified that definition for her elementary students to “Truth is what is real.” She then demonstrated this by hiding prizes in her classroom and then handing out two sets of directions for finding them. One set gave clear direction as to the prizes’ location while the other set gave false directions, leading kids to places where there were not any prizes. Only one set of directions were true.
The teacher went on to note that objective truths “are things that remain true no matter what we think, feel or believe about them.” While subjective preferences “are individual likes and dislikes that differ from person to person.” For example, my wife prefers chocolate ice cream while I would rather have eggnog ice cream. These are our subjective preferences. But the objective truth is that if she is eating chocolate ice cream, my wanting it to be eggnog ice cream will not make it so. This is what is real.
In a culture that is confusing objective truth with preferences, I encourage you to “hold fast to what is true!”