A Response to Griffin's Question

In his blog Griffin asked: Now, going along with objectivity and Hume, since Hume says that art is a matter of taste and only certain tastes are objectly right, does that mean people could have an incorrect sense of humor?

In Hume's eyes, yes. If humor and jokes were seen as art form by Hume and art is at the same time a matter of taste but at the same time only certain tastes are right, then humor can be incorrect and fallible in some situations. While Hume never outlines the conditions and type of people whose "taste" count and matter. This pretentious and lofty opinion that certain people matter and others psychological make up prevents their opinion from meaning anything contends this fact. Humor is definitely and undeniably a matter of taste but Hume argues that only certain opinions are right. To me, this argument is kind of along the lines of an argument amongst people who are basically saying "No I'm right" "No I am". Apparently to Hume there is only one right answer and the other person has psychological problems or defects. We are supposed to believe that Hume is one of the correct or valid people who can judge and determine art's beauty and worth. So if one was to laugh at a joke that Hume found completely unfunny then this humor would be fallible and incorrect. There must be something psychologically wrong with you. Honestly, I think this whole idea of people being right or wrong is fallible in itself. Where are the conditions for who gets to decide who is right? We never seem to find these conditions of who gets to decide what is good or bad art or in this case who is right in determining good or bad art. I think this is because the simple idea of determining what is good or bad in art is like determining which ice cream is the best tasting. If I say vanilla and you say chocolate, no one is right. Its a matter of taste. If Hume stopped there I would of have to agree with him but he keeps going with the idea of correct taste and that is where he loses me. But what psychological factors could you think of that Hume would judge as ones preventing one to fail at judging art?