Why is judging others wrong?

It’s not wrong. It is often indicated.

We all do it to some extent.
Is it right or wrong?
Do you like being judged by other’s?

I suppose it’s because you don’t possess the criteria for critiquing other individual human beings.

You have no idea what someone else is going through to make them do or act in a way you feel the need to judge them.

I spent the whole time tediously deducing the following:

It’s only wrong if you think it is, but even if you don’t you shouldn’t freely criticize.

I can support it

I agree with @chyna

“Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” You wouldn’t like it if someone did it to you so why would you do it to someone else??
“Judge not lest ye be judged.”

Because we have not the faintest idea of what someone is going through.
What their story/life is.

I think that making judgments about other people is inevitable; we all do it. What’s wrong is acting on the judgments or expressing them unthinkingly.

Why is judging others wrong?

What does judging others mean?

1. Thinking that a person should not be the way that they are.
2. Deciding that a person should not be allowed to be the way that they are.

The first is to do with perception. The second with policy.
Or: The first is internal (private). The second external (social).

So the question is made less vague and split as:

1. Is thinking that a person should not be the way they are a wrong thought?
2. Is acting (or speaking) on that thought a wrong action?

There’s a huge difference between judging right from wrong, and judging other people.

Judging right from wrong enables you to make healthy choices.

Can you separate the two?

I will add that judging other people places a value on them, so some people get treated better and some people get treated worse or even killed. This leads to all kinds of darkness.

I’ll judge people. If someone is being racists, sexist, anti-semitic, islamophobic, anti-christian, elitist, anti-lgbtq, disrespectful to other people, especially women or older folks without any discernible reason, abusive to animals or a dozen other things, I’ll judge them.

^^This. Exactly.

Nothing wrong with judging others. Just remember that whatever standard you use applies to yourself as well – what you do, not what you say. No hypocrisy allowed.

While it is human nature, it does a couple of things to the negative for the people involved and society as a whole. First off, let’s all agree that we are all flawed. We all have things that are not great or that others would view as being less than stellar.

When someone judges another, the judger assumes the moral high ground allowing arrogance to rule the day. So right there we can figure out something about the judger that they are not seeing in themselves.

When someone is judged, they often get defensive. So we can see that the judging causes a rift between people…it is divisive. And now we have a defensive person or group of people. They are likely going to lash out at those doing the judging. So we can add confrontation and aggression to the mix of things brought on by judging others.

Our society has some judgements built into it, things that are generally considered acceptable or not. They are called our societal norms or our ethos. For example, torturing small animals is generally not considered an acceptable behavior. There are many others, this is just an example. Most of these things are identified in laws as being not allowed by our society. So I don’t consider it “judging others” to consider to say they are doing wrong or there is something off about the person doing these things.

Now we come to the part where judging others isn’t as clear cut. When those judging assume a “wrong” by someone else and judges that person on that assumption. Example: I have been accused of being a racist and a xenophobe because I have stated I don’t like illegal immigration but support legal immigration. Typically that judgement is based on some belief that when I say I don’t like illegal immigration that is the truth but when I say I support legal immigration, that is a lie. By judging me as a racist or a xenophobe for that view point is nothing but pure ignorance. It tells me much about those that have made those statements.

@gorillapaws {{{HUGS}}} a million times!

@gorillapaws All of those things you’ve deemed worthy of judgement are themselves judgments against others. So you’ve taken the position of:

It is not ok to judge others and that is the only thing that I would judge you for

So far the reasons given as to why it is wrong to judge are:

1. It’s hypocrisy (wrong) unless you don’t mind being judged yourself
2. We are simply not qualified (or knowledgeable enough) to judge
3. It places a measurable value on people (leads to inequality)
4. It’s ineffective or counterproductive (my personal favorite)
5. It’s not healthy for us personally (it backfires on us)

How about:

Judgement marks the end of inquiry

We need to distinguish between judgement and prejudice, which etymologically comes from prejudge. A prejudice can be viewed as a judgement based on superficial characteristics like skin color, which are irrelevant to the judgement being made.