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1. By which crieria is it acceptable to judge groups of people? This is a question that has to be answered whether you want to promote a positive or negative vi
by elevensies 10y ago
1. By which crieria is it acceptable to judge groups of people? This is a question that has to be answered whether you want to promote a positive or negative view. Even something as seemingly innocuous as "celebrating heritage" implies a judgement of the accomplishments of a group.
2. Lack of opportunity and recognition: I would accept this as an excuse for an individual, but not a large group. Resource allocation is a task of the group. Still, it is possible to attribute to the wrong group. It wasn't the slave's race that failed to recognize him.
- thomasahle 10y agoWhen is it useful to have a good way of judging a people?
- elevensies 10y agoThere seems to be a great demand for it, people keep doing it. If you can join and leave voluntarily, then it's pretty important.
- Klockan 10y agoWhen doing targeted ads for example.
- thomasahle 10y agoThank you for finding a real example. It's important to have context when discussing topics like this. For example I think most people would reach the conclusion of the article without much argument, if this were the use case they had in mind.
- CamonZ 10y agoAlways, it's human beings way of making sense of the infinite complexity of other human beings.
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- thomasahle 10y agoI find in most situations where I find myself, I only have r to try and judge one or a few persons. Judging a whole people seems to be a much harder, if even possible task. In either case, wouldn't the acceptable judging criteria have to depend on the particular use case? Or might there be some universally good criteria?
- CamonZ 10y agoThere shouldn't be any criteria other than your own. Human beings evolved to make sense of chaos through stories, judging others is a way to create a story for them, stereotypes are stories over groups of people. It's not wrong, it's how we're wired. In the receiving end of a judgment, it's a fools errand to hope everyone thinks of you in the way you want them to, thinking that way is probably one of the hallmarks of narcissism. On the giving end of judgments, I think there's an overwhelming sense of guilt for not judging everyone positively, in the hopes to be an unattainable goal of "goodness" that's part of our culture because of liberalism which itself grew out of Christianity. As a culture, we've metastasized into these behaviors, nowadays everybody is worried of being perceived "positively" because of narcissism and perceiving others as "good" because of guilt of having the wrong feelings.