2 Comments on “On vanity III: Judging”

1. #1 otouto  
   on Feb 12th, 2010 at 6:52 pm

   I’ve been thinking about this lately, people always project their own values onto others and uses this standard to apply it to themselves. Does that make sense?

   E.g. you believe in climate change then you think that the world should live more environmentally, so you think everyone should cycle to work, and you judge how ‘good’ (environmentally) they are according to this value. Because you want to be ‘good’ (because I believe human beings are naturally inclined to being good), you will apply that standard on yourself.

   However, in fact we don’t really know if the first premise is correct. So I think we should question the value we hold rather than the judgement itself….

   I guess I’m trying to say is, people cannot judge other people based on their own moral values because each person works according to their own values, so it is not right to judge people by their actions because it is ultimately based on our own value system.

   ?????

2. #2 otouto  
   on Feb 12th, 2010 at 7:00 pm

   This leads onto another point actually….whenever you pass a judgement on someone you are indirectly imposing your own value system on them (this is my opinion). I guess as social animals, that is how we come about to a ’society’ because we influence each other based on judicial systems and other forms of judgements which instil our next generation with our own ‘value system’. Who is it to say this ‘value system’ is right in the first place?