RE: Is calling someone judgemental judgemental?
July 19, 2013 at 9:53 pm
(This post was last modified: July 19, 2013 at 9:54 pm by Koolay.)
(July 19, 2013 at 9:24 pm)pineapplebunnybounce Wrote:(July 19, 2013 at 9:08 pm)Koolay Wrote: When does it become unproductive or too much?
When you're assigning values to someone that is not immediately apparent.
In other words, if I say A, and you think i'm a bad person because A is a very bad thing to say, then you're ok. If I say A, and you think i must think B, C, D, E, F, and therefore am a bad person, then you're unproductively judgmental, because you judged too soon, now you won't know what I really think, or if i'm really a bad person.
If you don't judge someone for something you've assumed about them, it's generally alright.
Right. I kind of got you until the last sentence.
Let's say for example, 10 young black men wearing gang visuals, baseball caps, hooded tops, tattoos, etc. Came toward me alone in a park, would it be incorrect to assume them to be dangerous?
Or on the other end, if someone black is down in a southern state and a bunch of people wearing KKK costumes comes round the corner, would it be wrong for him to assume these people to be negative and dangerous?
Or if someone Jewish was approached by a skinhead looking angry with a swastika on his forehead, would it be wrong for that Jew to assume this person to be negative and/or dangerous?
These are extreme examples, but you get the point.
It seems completely counter productive and frankly dangerous to have a 'no assumption' rule.
The only freedom, is freedom from illusion.