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How do we judge? How SHOULD we judge?
There’s a lot of judging of people nowadays. Often very harsh judgements. It’s not clear to me whether this is a good thing or a bad thing.
But it certainly seems to be A thing!
In the United States, Donald Trump, who embodies the four horsemen of the apocalypse and the seven deadly since combined is idolized by millions as if he were the second coming of Jesus. And millions of others see him as Satan Himself. (Full disclosure — I’m pretty close to the second group. But I rarely think about him.)
We also hear condemnations of people who seem to be indifferent to the death of babies. But it seems to matter WHICH babies — whether they are, for example, Palestinian Arab babies or Israeli Jewish babies. Full disclosure: I disapprove of the killing of any babies. And I look askance at the killing of adults, too.
The same kind of qualified outrage seems to be largely the case for a wide variety of issues related to politics and culture and class and many other areas where people differ sharply in their views. It seems like many people hate each other — viscerally.
I think this is unfortunate. I also think it reflects a fundamental flaw that people tend to share on either side of these issues.
