Judgement

[Tamujiin]

Where did you learn your ability to judge other people? What gives you the right? Do you judge on a positive stance or negative? Do you feel you have the right to judge other people?

Do you feel nobody has the right to judge you? Whats your views on judgement?

 

try to keep the religious aspects to a minimum. This is a real world question.

[little timmy]

i dont believe any body should be judged no matter what and i heard what happend to alienslof and it makes me mad that people do things like that, i myself am a kid and and kids like the ones that were being mean to alienslof give a bad reputation to every kid in the world and it angers me and i dont understand y poeple would say things like that.

 

alienslof is a great loss to the modding comunity and i hope she returns and keeps on making mods for every one to enjoy

[Lisnpuppy]

I don't think that we should maybe judge people. But it happens. From the big moral issue judgements to small everyday almost un-noticed things (like dress, hair style, does a personal look clean?)

 

I have learned from my family, friends, school, and then made some judgement calls myself. I try to be careful as I have been wrong about people. I try to get to know people and then even when I don't agree with them I still attept to be respectful to them as long as it is recipocated. I don't think it is possible NOT to judge people regardless of how you eventually treat them. That is the important thing--how you choose to treat them.

 

There is a thin line between judging someone and prejudice. It is easy to cross.

 

I do not know everything. I do not know another persons circumstance. I don't know the answers to life, the universe and everything. So I try to make the judgements I do based on someones actual treatment of others. If a person is loving and treats things respectfully--I can forgive a multitude of sins.

[Tamujiin]

Just for a reference, any human, no matter who you are has judged a person, whether it be a person who looks mentally handicapped, or Mean looking biker dude who has a beard down to his knees like buddah. What matters is how you judge someone, and what your basis of judgement is on. is your judgement based upon a positive or negative.

 

Do you feel it is okay to swear? Do you feel it is okay to wear yout hat cocked like a gangsta? if answered yes or no to a question of this type, i would be automatically judging a group of people.

 

I knew a guy once who said he doesnt judge people, he was a jesuit or something he wore all white all the time, he was a very cool person, but he said he never judges people, which i find to be really hard, as maybe he might not judge someone outloud, he might judge someone to himself, so i guess what i am saying is if he actually didn't judge people either outloud or from within, he was probably the strongest person i have ever met.

[evilkoal]

a simple fact of life is, you will always judge people, whether you judge them to be nice, not nice, ugly, beautiful, whatever. it is impossible to not judge someone you look at, so i embrace it. i judge everyone, and i do it out loud sometimes too.

 

i have no idea why people try to suppress their natural instincts, it seems stupid to me.

[Malchik]

There is a distinction between observation and judgement. For instance you may notice a person seldom offers to pay his or her way, which from your personal experience is a fact. If you say (or think) they are therefore mean, it is a judgement. As a previous poster said, all people make these judgements subconsciously. Until they are spoken they can be reassessed - explanations or understanding may make you change your mind. Supportive evidence may make you change your view from X seems mean to X is mean. None of it really matters until you express your opinion to others. Provided you make it clear that it is your OPINION there is nothing wrong but when you state it as a fact it is totally irresponsible. Maybe there doesn't seem to be much difference between saying 'I think X is mean' to 'X is mean' but there is a world of difference. If personal opinions weren't discussed there would never be debate but stating opinions as facts is in my view one of the modern deadly sins.

 

To summarise - you judge whether you want to or not - it's what you do next that matters.

[delphinus]

Hmmm. weird thread, but interesting. I think it's our nature to judge people, we aren't all the same, fortunately. (even if there's a strong pressure from the contemporary world that tries to make us all the same, without personality) So when we meet another one, we must decide if he's nice or not, if he could be our friend or not, our possible lover or not, and so on...

 

I admit that i judge most people from the first approach, and sometimes i am wrong, but many other times i am right. (at least for my personal standards) Then, many people have deeper personalities, and you can't just judge them from the first impact (well you can, but only in appearance) Usually these people are the kind of people i like... no matter what they wear and no matter how they appear.

 

While i like people who have a deep personality, i strongly get bored and somewhat annoyed of people who are more likely a "standard". These are close-minded people, people who refuse (and sometimes scared of) people different from what they are, people who follow a thought, an ideal, a movement without really understanding what they are doing or thinking.

[Tamujiin]

Truly believe me when i say this, if people didnt judge each other the world would be lame, and alot more empty. Everybody would wear the same clothes ( or similiar style ) eat at the same nasty place,

 

Or as what is mostly the reason for reason and judgement, somebody would notice a big evil mass murder dude, and not judge him by anything and get in the car. Our ablitity to judge people came with the whole packege, judgement is a nessecary evil. But there are certain things a person shouldnt be judged upon, and if you dont know what those are, then i pity you. ( Race, Sex, RELIGON, Nationality ). we should only be judged by our actions, and appereance in certain extence, by which i dont mean pearcing or tattoo's or long hair, I mean Implanted spikes in your head and brand marks and crazy shtuff like that.

The Very Extreme, and i mean the very extreme. And if someone asks me what allows me to judge someone like that........My common sense.

[evilkoal]

you have to admit though, it would be freakin sweet to have horns on your skull :)

 

like mountain goat horns lol