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I try not to judge people as best as i can.. or rather i try to think that i try not to judge people often. In fact, i judge people quite a bit. And although perhaps it's not my right, i think it's relatively helpful.
People tend to think these days that all forms of judgement of others based on any one critereon are bad. I would disagree. Indeed prejudices are wrong, but according to Mr. Webster, a prejudice is an adverse opinion or leaning formed without just grounds. And indeed any judgement of this type is as least potentially dangerous.
Counterpoint: (counter example, maybe) let's suppose a high school teacher is looking to get a student to grade papers for other classes. Suppose it's well known that the stoners at school tend to stick together and get in trouble often, and may be considered untrustworthy. Now suppose a teacher(or anyone) could tell with roughly 75% acuracy if someone were a stoner by the way he/she dress. In that case, would it be wrong for the teacher to rule out any students who look like they may be a stoner as candidates for teacher's aids? I say certainly not! Granted, i cant prove that the other students are more honest. One couldnt prove that should someone dress like a pot head that they too are a pot head. One couldnt even prove that if one were a pothead, then he/she would be untrustworthy. And yet, i still think it perfectly fair to rule out these students, because there are higher odds of choosing an untrustworthy student, if the teacher should pick someone who dresses like a pot head. Perhaps the odds are only slightly higher, and i'm not saying as a rule the teacher should not pick one of those students. I think that would be unjust. What i am saying is that i would not pick one of those students, because i like having the odds on my side.
That's basically just the reason i feel it's okay to judge people and why i tihnk it makes things easier, and has very little to with what it is on which i wanted to post.
I think you very often can tell a lot about people by a few details. You can see a lot by the way someone dresses, or by their taste in music, or a number of other things. We all know that though.
I'd like to point out that you can tell a lot about people by the way they manage their windshield wipers in rain and their windows when it's not raining(or if it is, i suppose). You can easily tell that someone is arrogant when their window is down lower than the window on the otherside. You can tell the person is just too weak if the other window is open more. If one window is open and one is not, you can tell that person is just tasteless.
Similarly, when you see people driving around with their windshield wipers going full speed after the rain has mostly settled, you can tell that person is either a control freak or just a bit to anal about certain things. Perhaps it actually means they are just too indifferent. Very rarely do you see someone with their windshield wipers too slow, so i'm not sure what that means. All i do know is it's just embarrassing driving with your windshield wipers faster than they need to be.
I guess the only morals of the story are that: 1) it's okay to judge someone if you're pretty confident you're increasing your chances for success, and 2) that it makes you look dorky when your windshield wipers are like hellafaster than the rain, and 3) i'm not sure how much of that i believe. I at least half way believe both of the aforementioned reasons.