What is God's eye view?
Q: What is God's eye view?
A: God's eye view is a point of view where the speaker or writer assumes they have knowledge only God would have.
Q: How does it appear in religion?
A: In religion, it appears when an institution claims to speak for a divine being.
Q: How does it appear in writing?
A: In writing, it appears when an author leaves the point of view of the main actor to start writing about things they could not know if the story were in real life.
Q: How does it appear in science?
A: In science, it appears when a scientist ignores the way a subject-object problem affects statistics or an observer effect affects experiment.
Q: How does it appear in medicine?
A: In medicine, it appears when a doctor makes a claim that The Gaze they use on a patient actually sees the problem, rather than making a guess at a problem.
Q: How does it appear in ethics?
A: In ethics, it appears when statement is made about who or what is right without an honest attempt to make the process of deciding this consider all points of view.
Q: What is special case of this last example?
A: A special case of this last example is seen in wikis with a GodKing - often this person can get others to believe what they say about what is right without making any special effort to be fair to other views.
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