Thursday 28 February 2013

The Judgemental potential




Mack Kary






If you're human you've judged someone before. Face it we make judgements without realizing it all the time. Some of them are harmless and/or are not meant to be taken seriously while others are made on bias or as an educated guess. Anyways we as humans can easily open our minds and judge less. We attack others for the simplest things such as looks or what we wear but one judgement can go as far as offending millions of people. Stereotypes are among the worst judgements. Some are completely untrue while others have some truth based on statistics but just because it's true for some people in a particular group it's not for all. Every situation is different and has different circumstances to it. Before judging people on a stereotype take a good look into the situation and you may see that what they're doing or what they are is not a bad thing at all. The potential we have to judge others is endless. We could judge a person and guess something about them without knowing anything about them. To me that is just wrong. However we can try and avoid these large uneducated guesses or better known as judgements. We'll never be able to completely stop judging because we're human but we can minimize it by stopping the offensive and the uneducated judgements.

4 comments:

  1. I agree. I think the media plays a huge part in stereotypes as well. I think if they can start minimizing the amount of false and stereotypical information they put out there, it would be easier for communities etc. to stop as well. Its a huge problem in our society that can easily be fixed if people take the actions needed to do so.

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  2. I agree with you. The human brain is an extraordinary thing and with all of the things we as humans have come up with I think we have the capability to think before we judge someone. And as for stereotypes I also agree with you. Just because a large group in a population is a certain way doesn't mean that's how the entire population is like that.

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  3. thats a really good point. i think that problem that people have is that they dont have a filter when it comes to their judgements. Everybody judges people, but they dont have to say anything. people should just keep their mouths closed.

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  4. Mack, you are right. As humans, we all judge, every day. We need to realize that we are judging and evaluate our judgments before we speak or act.

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