What is the root cause for why someone judges someone else?

Question:We all disagree, I see nothing wrong.

But what do you think the root cause is for the judgment we may place upon someone else?

Do we benefit somehow for placing a judgment on another?

Do we suffer somehow from doing this?

Your insight, please...

Have a wonderful day!

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: We all disagree, I see nothing wrong.

But what do you think the root cause is for the judgment we may place upon someone else?

Do we benefit somehow for placing a judgment on another?

Do we suffer somehow from doing this?

Your insight, please...

Have a wonderful day!

I've often noticed that when I find myself judging someone else (which I try very hard not to do) it is done out of intimidation. If I say, "Oh, she thinks she's so great," or "She's wrong for spending all that money on blah blah blah" then most likely I don't like that person because either a) she has done something I disagreed with or b) I am jealous of her, and am looking for reasons to complain about her.

there are only two roots to WHY, fear and love, love does not judge so fear is why it happens.

I think it's because its just habit. everyone has an opinion and we can't help but think we don't have to tell others about our opinion though. I know that I judge people as soon as i look at them but i don't just ignore them if i think they're ugly or something and usually once i get to know them i make another judgement.

They judge because they feel that they are truly correct in whatever it is that's being discussed, and that the other person is wrong, so therefore at times they feel a need to look down on or put down the other person's views. I don't think anyone should judge anyone else because everyone has a right to an opinion and what may be true for one person, may not be true for another.

U Have a wonderful day as well.

biologist would tell you it is important to judge, in order to stay alive, and to mate the right partner, to eat the right food, to avoid dangers and to seek pleasant things.

The idea often is, I don't like myself very much so the only way I can be any good is if I can find someone even worse than I am.

Love and blessings Don

the root cause is labeling. labeling has been useful since long before we were humans. we had to judge quickly, label them as peer/predator/potential mating partner and so on. If we didn't we could have died. So it has been useful and it is still useful in our highly evolved state.

do we suffer? yes. from stereotyping. again it can be to discrimate people whether they your side or not. this extends to all aspect; discriminating attractive potential partner, creeds, introvert, extrovert, rich, poor, macho, funny, boring and so on. you get the idea. in short sometimes we will not take the time to get to understand the subject beyond our judgement.

when the discrimination crosses the race boundary, then it's called racism. since labeling or judging is part of our animal nature, it dies hard. after all it's our instinct.

It's inescapable human nature. Instinct. Our more primitive ancestors had to continually evaluate others as friend or foe as a matter of survival and we're still hard-wired that way, although it manifests itself in more subtle ways. Everyone does it to some extent, even those who claim they don't.

"One must never fail to pronounce moral judgment.

"Nothing can corrupt and disintegrate a culture or a man's character as thoroughly as does the precept of moral agnosticism, the idea that one must never pass moral judgment on others, that one must be morally tolerant of anything, that the good consists of never distinguishing good from evil.

"It is obvious who profits and who loses by such a precept. It is not justice or equal treatment that you grant to men when you abstain equally from praising men's virtues and from condemning men's vices. When your impartial attitude declares, in effect, that neither the good nor the evil may expect anything from you—whom do you betray and whom do you encourage?"

yeah, i know what you mean...
it is good idea to judge people? it could be very dangerous if you get the wrong idea about other people.
we all have to be very careful what we judge that can ruins people life; also people out there with very small minded could have hurt you if you judge someone.

Internal insecurities about ourselves &

the fear of the unknown (if we cant understand something then we disassociate ourselves with it)