I believe that people are not as good at making observations, discoveries, and decisions if they are impartial. Partiality is also an interesting topic on its own. If one is completely unbiased in everything he does, and remains objective with every decision he makes, where is the character of that person? If I treat everything like I have no opinion, then what is the point in having an opinion? That being said, impartiality is also not to be scorned. The facts must be respected.
Partiality is an interesting thing. To be partial is to be biased; your opinion is based upon your past experiences and observations when you are partial. If I am partial to video games over board games, that means that I might choose to play a video game over a board game. If I was making that decision and I was impartial, it would not be possible for me to chose. Complete objectivity has not been attained as yet. Partiality brings character to one’s decisions, and impartiality is bland, perhaps making it even harder to make decisions.
On the other hand, there are still times where it is best to be as impartial as you can. Some good examples are news reporters. Now, it seems to me that in this modern age, most news reporters are very biased. The job of a news reporter is not to give you the opinion of the news reporter. It is to deliver you facts. If the news reporter is always looking at a situation from a perspective of, “this is what I interpret this to beâ€, we don’t receive facts. We receive opinions. Opinions are well nigh useless to us.
I don’t believe it makes sense to be impartial all the time. It can help you make observations, discoveries, and decisions better and more characteristic to yourself; however, there are certain situations where it is best to keep your opinions irrelevant, because they can get in the way of facts.