We westerners very conflicted when its OK to evaluate things & our language shows this. Using judgement is good but being judgmental is bad.
The only difference seems to be whether or not we think others have a right to judge us on any particular grounds &this is highly subjective
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Exercising moral or ethical judgement is good as long as its not just moralising and being judgmental. More useless terms.
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I am regularly accused of being immoral by religious people coz I don't think a specific sexual morality exists. I think them judgmental.
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But I have also been accused of moralising & being judgmental on all sorts of things from cheating to political positions.
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I think accusations of 'moralising' & 'being judgmental' are better replaced by 'what exactly is the ethical problem you see here?'
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Someone accused someone else of moralising & it was then pointed out that she also made moral judgments regarding the behaviour of others.
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This doesn't work. Ppl who make no moral judgments are psychopaths. Even the most culturally relativist postmodernist has (awful) ethics.
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Obv, this is abt the US election again. Where is the right line between 'All Trump voters are evil' & 'never judge anyone by their politics'
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At one end, we're veering into the worst of divisive identity politics & at the other, we're making it taboo to criticise ideas if political
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Do you not think that "using judgement" is evaluating evidence, and "being judgmental" is following your bias?
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