JUDGMENTAL | 2005-08-31
I do not know a single person who thinks he or she is judgmental.
That is how I know for sure that I am.
The piece below is about how nobody thinks they're cruel. They are doing it for your own good.
The word judgmental is exactly like the word cruel.
Nobody thinks he's judgmental. They are dong it for your own good or because "someone has to make a decision" or because they are not speaking for themselves but for the Cause or for God.
One of the greatest inventors of all time was the priest who first said, "You do not have to do what I say. You have to follow the Law of our Supreme God Ukka which I have revealed to you."
A more colloquial form of this phenomenon is the endless Sayings of Lincoln. As one person pointed out, "If Lincoln said half the things people quote from him he wouldn't have had time to do anything else."
What happened, of course, was that Ben down at the country store thought of something really good. But the other guys didn't want to say "Ben said this." It wouldn't impress anybody. So they described it as a Lincoln Saying.
The first priest, Ukka's boy, didn't try to enforce anything himself. he just said, "Do this or my big buddy Ukka will hit you with eleven plagues and you teenage daughter will have the biggest outbreak of zits on record."
Lenin was not judgmental. He just executed people by the millions for the sake of Marxism. A dead man's writings are as good as an unseen Ukka.
How do you tell whether you are being moral or judgmental?
It's a matter of judgment.