is it BAD to PRE-JUDGE?

Answer 1

Golden Rule: Treat others the way you want to be treated.
I don't want people to look at me and make a decision about how they are going to treat me because of things I can't control like race, my gender, or status etc.
I will try to take care to present the best me, but things like style and personality people should also be open too. Sometimes what's under an image can surprise you so be too quick to make a decision until you know what's really there.
The thing about living the golden rule is I tend to expect this same open-mindedness from everyone and am often hurt by their lack of respect and common decency.

Answer 2

Usually, yes. Always, no. It's late at night and the car has a flat tire. A man stops and offers a ride. Most will politely refuse this offer. Why? Because this situation has already been pre-judged to be potentially dangerous based on either personal experience or the experience(s) of others. This is not necessarily an insult to the man, but rather what some may end up calling "common sense". It's still pre-judgement, is it not?

We do not live in a world of absolutes...sometimes I think people don't realize there are shades of grey.

Answer 3

No, not at all.

Judgment is one of the most valuable tools we have in navigating the world around us. It's how we detect danger, see opportunity, discern true from false and good from bad. So I guess the question is what you mean by pre-judge.

I don't see anything wrong with drawing conclusions about people or things immediately upon seeing them, as long as we bear in mind that appearances can be deceiving. Snap judgments prepare us for how to deal with a situation, but we should always be prepared to adjust (or even totally change) our judgment if new information tells us that our initial judgment was wrong.

Judgment itself is never wrong, it's only the negative behaviors that people follow their judgments with that can be bad. If you are constantly judging people and things, it doesn't mean you're a vicious person, it means you have an active mind that is always trying to understand its surroundings. Only when you allow your judgments to lead to hostile behavior BEFORE you have confirmed that your judgment was accurate do you do wrong.

Answer 4

It's quite sad how people judge you before they know you. It has a lot to do with the people the person is raised with, and now everyone wants to fit in with everyone else so they follow the leader which is usually the person who picks on someone who is different or does something someone else likes. Another fact of the matter is that a common stereotype with smokers is that they are rude people, brought by movies and ads that misinterpret the smoking crowd as 'bad people'. The fact of the matter is people tend to judge a book by its cover no matter how much they are told not to.

Answer 5

All of us, whether we are aware of it or not are guilty of pre-judging people and situations. These pre-judgements occur b/c of past experiences and are actually very important for development and survival. The problem occurs when we allow these pre-judgements to hinder our growth and prevent us from meeting new people and interacting in new settings/situations.
If you allow your pre-judgements to make all of you decisions about a certain person or particular situation, you just might miss out on some great people and places.

Answer 6

I don't like questions about good and bad. There are things which are clearly good: the scent of marigolds on a hot day, and there are things that are clearly bad: the Holocaust.

Your question is too vague. A big part of me wants to immediately say yes, but there is a part of me that can see value in being able to pre-judge packaged food, for example.

For me, it's a toss up.

Answer 7

Pre-judge is close, but not quite the same as to predict.
Judgement implies some quantity of certainty which
is less mutable than prediction. With that in mind, it
still isn't necessarily bad to pre-judge and keep that
judgement to one's self. To share a hasty pre-judgement
is to potentially open Pandora's box. In my opinion,
the individuals who are communicated with about the
hasty pre-judgement are probably less responsible
for escalation of false pretenses than the initial
pre-judger because the individuals who receive
knowledge regarding the judgement have their
perceptions narrowed to that of the pre-judger.

Answer 8

There's the old adage, the more I learn the less I know. The more I learn about a person, the more I understand. It's like in law, I don't necessarily let the person off without having consequences for his/her actions, however I can understand how the person came to the position he/she was in. For example, if I saw someone steal something and I prejudged (he or she was a thief) I could easily be wrong. The person could be hired by a security company to test a system, or the person could be dual-personality and needs mental health treatment or the person could be in a hurry and the clerk wasn't around and he/she left the money on the counter and I didn't see it.

Answer 9

Is it bad to pre-judge, you asked? I think that it is bad to as you say pre-judge anyone, if you do not know what or who, people are pointing their finger to whoever, and you do know what really happened. I have always stood with this motto, do not judge less you be judged, meaning do not judge other people if you do not want them to judge you. Thanks for your question.

Answer 10

PRE-judge someone means to form an opinion about someone BEFORE finding out anything about that person. Only an idiot would do that.