Releasing Global Judgment

The next step for many of us seems to be detaching from the judgments that we have placed upon the world, upon society, and upon others. This is the only logical step because the truth of the matter is that when we judge another we're really just judging another facet of ourselves.


That's for a different discussion though.

Who of us haven't found ourselves gawking in disgust, horror, or anger at the news? Who hasn't at least had a passing thought about how they hate war, about how things are so terrible, or about how evil the people perpetrating these atrocities are?

If we didn't at least some anger toward the things happening world, well, we'd be pretty darn apathetic.

But now it's time to let these judgments pass, for that's all they are. Judgment only serves to further separate us from others - even a so-called 'justified' judgment, such as claiming that we're better than someone because we'd never do the same things as them. We'd never act like Trump, we'd never drop bombs, we'd never kill anyone.

Who can say? The answer will never be found because we'll never truly live in another person's shoes. However, if you were to merely consider looking at things through the eyes of the person that you're judging, you' ll usually find that they're no different than you. Sure, the environment and circumstances leading up to their decisions were different - but in spirit, we're all humans.

Saying that we'd behave differently than someone else is redundant anyways because no two people can really act the exact same. Regardless, I have my doubts that every soldier, every dictator, every violent offender, or every person that we would dub 'evil' or 'heartless' was born seeking to do harm.

Lives, environments, families, and experiences shape an individual's understanding of boundaries and calibrate their moral compass. To say someone's 'bad' because their actions don't reflect those that you would choose in a similar situation is like cursing out a tree for having a stunted growth.

Nobody chooses their childhood, their traumatic experiences, or their parents (at least, not in any physically tangible manner) but everyone is shaped entirely by these things. To judge another for being raised differently in such a way that their beliefs and behaviors may be different or even blatantly contradict the morals that you hold to be 'just and true' is hypocrisy.

We are all born equal - what happens after that forms an individual, said individual forms judgments about their world and labels things to familiarize themselves with concepts, objects, etc. Good and evil are two such labels, subjective judgments sitting on opposite sides of the same coin.