judgmental people

No one is more judgmental than someone who is judgmental of people who are judgmental.

This is a doubly dangerous trap to fall into. “I think you are wrong with being judgmental of someone else and so I judge you harshly.” The hypocrisy of this position is glaringly obvious and deceptively ignored in the public arena. You take no ethical high road by buying into the same trait you are lashing out against.

You will have a hard time finding harsher, more contemptuous behavior and language than that coming out of someone who is striking out against someone else who they accuse of racism, sexism, homophobia and such. Why is this so dangerous? It is dangerous because it is socially acceptable. Whenever society provides you with an excuse to totally ignore self-examination you are headed down the path of destruction. You will literally eat yourself alive.

It’s so easy being gracious to people who think like you do. Maturity only begins when you reach out to those whose thinking you bitterly oppose.