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Judgement

It is easy to judge someone as good, or bad, or fun, or boring, or malicious or a criminal (like the legal system does). But putting a blanket judgement on a person shows an inherent misunderstanding of what a person is. A person is not good or bad - his or her ideas (beliefs, impulses etc.) are what are correct or incorrect (rational or irrational). It's the ideas that need to be corrected. We need not stop at blaming the ideas (as opposed to the person). The ideas (in most cases) did not creatively emerge in the person's mind. They were installed there by mechanisms. And those mechanisms need to be corrected as well. For human beings those mechanisms are - culture (broadly, which encompasses things like - parenting, religion, social norms, beliefs etc.), negative life experiences like trauma, disease, other people with incorrect ideas etc. So making a judgement on a person and blaming the person is the same as making a judgement on badly cooked pasta and blaming the pasta for...