Is it possible to live our lives not being judgemental
My wife and I were having a conversation last night. We were watching one of those programs that show how the impact of poverty, family break-down, and lack of education significantly increase the liklihood of involvement with the judicial system. We started discussing how judgemental people can be about your appearance, ethnicity, weight, age, religion, politics, life-style, education, background, financial-status...etc. without really knowing anything about the person!
As a society, ours and/or anyone elses, it seems that we tend to want to punish, ostracize, or legislate any kind of the above traits that are counter to the "accepted or established" societal norms!
For any of the above reasons, these judgemental attitudes, whether personal or part of a business and/or societal culture, can leave many people, without family, friends, jobs, homes, medical care, food, income, or other basic necessities of life.
What if the penalty for being judgemental resulted in a felony conviction that could be punishable by death?
Do you think that would be enough to inspire people to change their minds about how we see each other? I am the worlds worst on being judgemental, often times I thought I was practicing discernment.
I have always tried to allow people to be who they are and except them for who they are. I guess sometimes it is just not possible. Maybe we all are to busy in our lives to cultivate friendships, friendships do take so much understanding and time.
I know that idea really got me thinking!