Judge not, that ye be not judged

Judging someone is high up the list of offenses one could make, especially in the politically correct society. Judging, is simply observing someone’s way of living and inferring your opinion from that. People judge others silently all the time. For example, if I enter a bus, I would be more likely to sit next to a well dressed man than, say a homeless person. This could be termed ‘judging’ but it happens all the time, sub consciously even.

It would be unacceptable if I were to go to a person and tell them (indeed, command them) to live life my way. This is unacceptable because each person has their perceptions changed due to the way they were brought up. Morals change from place to place: A person eating cow meat in North India, and in Manchester are treated differently. A person having a dog delicacy in China might be less scorned than if he was to eat it in California. On the flip side, murdering someone is a vice everywhere, but these type of ‘universal’ crimes are few. I bet that if one took the common laws of all the different nations we would come up with a very small handbook.

So now you know why judging someone in the literal sense is bad. But isn’t there a singular way to live life, that is simply the best way to? The truth might hurt but the answer is that there is only one which is that every person can live whichever way they want to. If you want to impose your morals on them, don’t. Rather, devout yourself to that lifestyle and make it so immensely successful that other people copy yours. Let them indoctrinate themselves, if your morals are good enough.