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Evolutionary Judgment
I would like to talk about judgment. What is judgment? I don’t know what the dictionary definition is. But I think judgment is an estimation of what we consider reality of the situation. Interpretation of what the reality of the present situation is judgment. I could also be an interpretation of what events had happened in the past. Are we born judges? Judgment is a very important thing in life. I helps us decide what is wrong and right. Judgment is a mixture of discretion, distinguishon, and discrimination. All these things together and the application of these things together is judgment.
When we are born we come out of the womb and we feel the difference and we cry. Our judgment at the time is very miniscule it is the in comfort that makes us cry. We judge when we are hungry we cry for milk, that is a sort of judgment. It is judging when we are hungry. Then we judge when to have the parental attention and cry. We judge when to do it and when not to do it. Then we grow up to be a boy or a girl. And then we do mischief.
Is judgment anywhere involved in mischief? What is mischief, it is a sort of entertainment, it is an undisciplined entertainment. The undisciplined entertainment for small children is judgment which is considered undisciplined by elders. What do we gain out of mischief? We come to know what is right and wrong. The parents say if you do this it is right and if you do this you are wrong. That is what a child’s mind takes. At that level the children take what the parents say as right. If the parent says that it is wrong to talk with strangers, the child will not talk to strangers. It does not have the capacity or curiosity then. It could not have understood whether such things exist. Like an enquiry, it may not know what is enquiry. It may not know that there are situations or words or conditions beyond what the parent says. If the parents say that the police will catch you, it will get afraid of the policeman. If the parent says that the police man will beat you it will necessarily be afraid of the policeman. So judgment at that level at 3 or 4 years is limited to that extent. Then our needs grow we begin to start telling lies. The child may not know that it is telling lies when it cries for milk or when it seeks the attention of the parents.
When it comes up to 6 or 7 years it comes to realize what a lie is. But it still then continues. Can anyone in this world be without telling lies? No it is impossible even as a baby you would have lied; How could as a baby you would have lied? Now as a baby would have needed the warmth of your mother’s bosoms or hands. So you would have cried just as you would have cried for milk. The reason could be different but you could have thought the mother with the intention of giving milk would come to you and then hold you in her hands and take you near her bosoms. So you see even at that level without knowing of the word lie you would have lied. The cries and smile and laughter could have been meant for that. You never know even a baby could play a lot of tricks without knowing it is playing tricks. I don’t justify lies but the reason for the lie. If you lie for a good reason it is not wrong. The child may not have the capacity to judge what is right and what is wrong so it would just have to take the words of its parents. If you do mischief the cop will come and beat you. It may not know what the cop is but it knows that beating is painful. It may think that even if a caring person like the parent beats it is painful so it may just imagine a stranger beating it. It will be much more tough so it comes to a judgment that it is painful and it is afraid of the cop and it takes the words of the parent. The complexity of our judgment process it changes as we grow. As a teen we may not be at the same level of judgment that as we are in our 25 or 26 years. The judgment could be subjective. What is subjective? If you are crazy about something then you may not hesitate to show bias towards attaining that. So judgment could also be subjective. As we grow older we come to know the difference between subjective judgment and objective judgment. Subjective judgment is a weakness and objective judgment that’s a sort of playing tricks or games to attain ones desires. So we should avoid subjective judgment as well as objective judgment. We should concentrate on judgment as such. But then in society there are a lot of instances where objective judgment and subjective judgment are considered at times rather than real judgment.
Why do we need objective judgment? A mentally retarded child may not be able to compete with a child who is normal. In a situation where both are made to perform it is not fair for them to compete. For example like a simple process like taking food the challenged person may take a long time whereas the normal person can take the correct time. But then you don’t misjudge you won’t discredit the actions of a challenged child. You just accept it to be equivalent to that of a normal child. So this is subjective judgment it is subject to the child. What is objective judgment? Objective judgment is a judgment where we are intent to do something. We have competitions in school like drawing competitions, running and swimming. So what is the objective, it is to improve the competition to improve the sportsmanship. So it is reasonable here to use objective judgment. This might be a good example. There are minorities in a country they are given
Special rights in a country so this in also objective judgment. The book worm sort of judgment that we follow as child and teen it just disappears as we grow older. We are able to judge complex scenarios and situations. But then after becoming an adult if we tend to judge as a child would then its unfair. It is like going to the tonnage. So we will have to evolve as normal people. Our judging capacity should enhance. Well as a child the mother tells that we can take only 2 chocolates a day. The mother might say if you eat ice-cream 2 times a day the teeth will decay. But that need not apply to an adult. Even after becoming an adult if he thinks that taking only 2 chocolates or 2 ice creams a day will be correct then so what I intend to say is the rigidity of the rules and laws that we are governed as a child need not apply to an adult. Judgment is a learning process. If we are made to judge at a very young age it will useful. It will be more productive and useful to the society. Well take me as an example as a child I used to write rules in by mind, I used to have rigid laws as to what is right and what is wrong. But then after I grew up I changed. I was not able to do justice to the rules and laws that I had framed. I was not able to stick to the rigid laws and rules that I had framed as a child. I was thinking that what my parents and teachers told was right and that I had to follow it strictly. I did not really put an effort of whether what they where right or wrong, I just took it blindly that what they say is right because they were big and had much more knowledge than me. Of course you see these adults. These people who teach children sometimes compete with children. That is a very funny thing I have observed. How come a grown up an adult compete with a child. The adults here need to use common sense. A child being small is bound to make mistakes. That is what a child is it learns by making mistakes. It has to be given sufficient chances to make mistakes. If it is given a chance to make mistakes the right mistakes it will learn in the right way how to avoid such mistakes. It won’t commit a wrong or a sin.
Author of this book is, Sathish kumar Mahalingam.
Please forward your comments to sathishkumartrichy@yahoo.com
I would like to talk about judgment. What is judgment? I don’t know what the dictionary definition is. But I think judgment is an estimation of what we consider reality of the situation. Interpretation of what the reality of the present situation is judgment. I could also be an interpretation of what events had happened in the past. Are we born judges? Judgment is a very important thing in life. I helps us decide what is wrong and right. Judgment is a mixture of discretion, distinguishon, and discrimination. All these things together and the application of these things together is judgment.
When we are born we come out of the womb and we feel the difference and we cry. Our judgment at the time is very miniscule it is the in comfort that makes us cry. We judge when we are hungry we cry for milk, that is a sort of judgment. It is judging when we are hungry. Then we judge when to have the parental attention and cry. We judge when to do it and when not to do it. Then we grow up to be a boy or a girl. And then we do mischief.
Is judgment anywhere involved in mischief? What is mischief, it is a sort of entertainment, it is an undisciplined entertainment. The undisciplined entertainment for small children is judgment which is considered undisciplined by elders. What do we gain out of mischief? We come to know what is right and wrong. The parents say if you do this it is right and if you do this you are wrong. That is what a child’s mind takes. At that level the children take what the parents say as right. If the parent says that it is wrong to talk with strangers, the child will not talk to strangers. It does not have the capacity or curiosity then. It could not have understood whether such things exist. Like an enquiry, it may not know what is enquiry. It may not know that there are situations or words or conditions beyond what the parent says. If the parents say that the police will catch you, it will get afraid of the policeman. If the parent says that the police man will beat you it will necessarily be afraid of the policeman. So judgment at that level at 3 or 4 years is limited to that extent. Then our needs grow we begin to start telling lies. The child may not know that it is telling lies when it cries for milk or when it seeks the attention of the parents.
When it comes up to 6 or 7 years it comes to realize what a lie is. But it still then continues. Can anyone in this world be without telling lies? No it is impossible even as a baby you would have lied; How could as a baby you would have lied? Now as a baby would have needed the warmth of your mother’s bosoms or hands. So you would have cried just as you would have cried for milk. The reason could be different but you could have thought the mother with the intention of giving milk would come to you and then hold you in her hands and take you near her bosoms. So you see even at that level without knowing of the word lie you would have lied. The cries and smile and laughter could have been meant for that. You never know even a baby could play a lot of tricks without knowing it is playing tricks. I don’t justify lies but the reason for the lie. If you lie for a good reason it is not wrong. The child may not have the capacity to judge what is right and what is wrong so it would just have to take the words of its parents. If you do mischief the cop will come and beat you. It may not know what the cop is but it knows that beating is painful. It may think that even if a caring person like the parent beats it is painful so it may just imagine a stranger beating it. It will be much more tough so it comes to a judgment that it is painful and it is afraid of the cop and it takes the words of the parent. The complexity of our judgment process it changes as we grow. As a teen we may not be at the same level of judgment that as we are in our 25 or 26 years. The judgment could be subjective. What is subjective? If you are crazy about something then you may not hesitate to show bias towards attaining that. So judgment could also be subjective. As we grow older we come to know the difference between subjective judgment and objective judgment. Subjective judgment is a weakness and objective judgment that’s a sort of playing tricks or games to attain ones desires. So we should avoid subjective judgment as well as objective judgment. We should concentrate on judgment as such. But then in society there are a lot of instances where objective judgment and subjective judgment are considered at times rather than real judgment.
Why do we need objective judgment? A mentally retarded child may not be able to compete with a child who is normal. In a situation where both are made to perform it is not fair for them to compete. For example like a simple process like taking food the challenged person may take a long time whereas the normal person can take the correct time. But then you don’t misjudge you won’t discredit the actions of a challenged child. You just accept it to be equivalent to that of a normal child. So this is subjective judgment it is subject to the child. What is objective judgment? Objective judgment is a judgment where we are intent to do something. We have competitions in school like drawing competitions, running and swimming. So what is the objective, it is to improve the competition to improve the sportsmanship. So it is reasonable here to use objective judgment. This might be a good example. There are minorities in a country they are given
Special rights in a country so this in also objective judgment. The book worm sort of judgment that we follow as child and teen it just disappears as we grow older. We are able to judge complex scenarios and situations. But then after becoming an adult if we tend to judge as a child would then its unfair. It is like going to the tonnage. So we will have to evolve as normal people. Our judging capacity should enhance. Well as a child the mother tells that we can take only 2 chocolates a day. The mother might say if you eat ice-cream 2 times a day the teeth will decay. But that need not apply to an adult. Even after becoming an adult if he thinks that taking only 2 chocolates or 2 ice creams a day will be correct then so what I intend to say is the rigidity of the rules and laws that we are governed as a child need not apply to an adult. Judgment is a learning process. If we are made to judge at a very young age it will useful. It will be more productive and useful to the society. Well take me as an example as a child I used to write rules in by mind, I used to have rigid laws as to what is right and what is wrong. But then after I grew up I changed. I was not able to do justice to the rules and laws that I had framed. I was not able to stick to the rigid laws and rules that I had framed as a child. I was thinking that what my parents and teachers told was right and that I had to follow it strictly. I did not really put an effort of whether what they where right or wrong, I just took it blindly that what they say is right because they were big and had much more knowledge than me. Of course you see these adults. These people who teach children sometimes compete with children. That is a very funny thing I have observed. How come a grown up an adult compete with a child. The adults here need to use common sense. A child being small is bound to make mistakes. That is what a child is it learns by making mistakes. It has to be given sufficient chances to make mistakes. If it is given a chance to make mistakes the right mistakes it will learn in the right way how to avoid such mistakes. It won’t commit a wrong or a sin.
Author of this book is, Sathish kumar Mahalingam.
Please forward your comments to sathishkumartrichy@yahoo.com
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