'the last opinion in search of the truth of past and future is called the JUDGEMENT.'
-Thomas Hobbes, "Leviathan - Chap VII: Of the Ends, or Resolutions of Discourse"
We know who a judge is and what he does - a neutral party appointed to arbitrate the rights and wrongs of certain disputable issues. This requires him/her to form an opinion. Hence, passing judgements necessarily requires an opinionated person.
A person, when labelled "quick to judge", is often in the derogatory sense. Isn't he/she just a person who is able to form an opinion quickly? What then happens when we call someone "judgemental"? Does he/she judge based on a certain set of (moral?) values known only to him/her? Or is there a universal set of rules/laws/regulations? So when a person has high, strict and moral values, he/she is branded judgemental?! So being judgemental is good! ? Then again, why do we hate judgemental people?
When a person is thought of as a person who won't judge people or friends, does it simply mean not forming an opinion? Or does it mean that the person has got low/loose moral values? What if this person actually does form opinions, but keeps those opinions to him/herself? - "No comments" will then mean that a person doesn't judge but has got high moral values?
Seems like fine lines again, between judging, opinionated, judgemental and quick-to-judge.
2 comments:
like that how?
share opinions but suspend judgment?
lucky i can always rely on GOM. - wuss
i also don't know how mans... have disclaimers when u communicate ur "ideas" with other people?
GOM=P.I.T.A.
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