tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1279973426476621559.post8061442349743516575..comments2023-04-03T05:20:01.318-04:00Comments on Young, Hip and Conservative: a skeptical blog: What's wrong with judging?Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00427964335321253510noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1279973426476621559.post-83173640342720396772010-06-16T11:03:52.339-04:002010-06-16T11:03:52.339-04:00Its the same with "discrimination", whic...Its the same with "discrimination", which is called bad, but even those who say so tend to discriminate between food and poison, say.<br /><br />You have to believe in Judgement in order to believe in Justice.<br /><br />One thing I notice from match.com is the proliferation of women who declare they seek a "non-judgemental" mate. I sometimes ask them if they bother to judge their partners, or if they simply accept all comers. Usually the conversation ends right about that point. At least I am amusing myself, I guess.<br /><br />I have a bumper sticker that reads "Judge Ye, and Be Judged". It's a motto to live by.Mark Lindholmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14184361531569761797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1279973426476621559.post-50919608576628659442010-06-15T08:01:10.366-04:002010-06-15T08:01:10.366-04:00Good article.
I like to take a queue from Marcus ...Good article.<br /><br />I like to take a queue from Marcus Aurelius and give people the benefit of the doubt. We're always going to be wrong in some manner, but we can choose to reach out to other human beings in a positive, constructive way. Offering trust to people can be dangerous, you obviously have to be prepared for betrayal (some inadvertent, some not) and disappointment. Aurelius' stoic background did that for him, and I like to think I'm getting to that point myself. <br /><br />I like his views of humanity. He believed we're all significantly flawed but still worthy of indiscriminate love and respect. He believed it was biological, that we were like ants built to work with each other and subsequently lend our trust.<br /><br />Then I read some Robert Wright (an evolutionary psychologist) and his book "Nonzero." It seems as if humanity is getting better at doing what Aurelius taught us all the time and Wright views our highly integrated, interdependent, globalized world as evidence. We must specialize to excel in our free-trade environment. We then depend upon others to produce the other necessities of life while we work in our own niche. It takes trust to rely on that system.Jeremyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14317329031513410342noreply@blogger.com