Sitting in Judgement of Good and Evil
It is a natural tendency, as well as a learned behavior, for individuals to sit in judgement of certain things, or events. We learn from a very early age, things that we deem, are either good or bad for us depending upon a particular circumstance. Therefore, it should not come as a surprise, when individuals find an easy path towards being judgmental about another’s actions, personality, appearance or anything else that they choose to delve upon. Many of the truths, we hold to be self-evident, are actually learned behaviors from classroom education, reading, observation, parents, or our peers in social settings. People typically learn biases through their environment. This is true, even within an organized religious setting such as through churches.
The following example, illustrates this philosophy perfectly. We learn how important the inducement of strong religious influences, communal social fervor, and the effects of good versus evil, on our countries early colonial life; through such writings as Hawthorne’s, Young Goodman Brown, 1835, set in Salem …show more content…
Her slanted viewpoint about a newspaper article, regarding an escaped convicted murderer, who self-labeled himself the Misfit, turns out to be eerily prophetic. In her own homespun southern way, that leaves the reader wondering about her own ethnicity, she recounts previous social injustice with racial slang as she describes the journey. Undoubtedly, a learned behavior from her early southern environment, which colored her judgment with inappropriate assumptions. Uttering racial insensitive comments, that describe the trek southward, with a diatribe of terms that would be regarded with disdain, in a more modern politically correct society. Reminiscent of a time with plantations and a bygone era of
It is a natural tendency, as well as a learned behavior, for individuals to sit in judgement of certain things, or events. We learn from a very early age, things that we deem, are either good or bad for us depending upon a particular circumstance. Therefore, it should not come as a surprise, when individuals find an easy path towards being judgmental about another’s actions, personality, appearance or anything else that they choose to delve upon. Many of the truths, we hold to be self-evident, are actually learned behaviors from classroom education, reading, observation, parents, or our peers in social settings. People typically learn biases through their environment. This is true, even within an organized religious setting such as through churches.
The following example, illustrates this philosophy perfectly. We learn how important the inducement of strong religious influences, communal social fervor, and the effects of good versus evil, on our countries early colonial life; through such writings as Hawthorne’s, Young Goodman Brown, 1835, set in Salem …show more content…
Her slanted viewpoint about a newspaper article, regarding an escaped convicted murderer, who self-labeled himself the Misfit, turns out to be eerily prophetic. In her own homespun southern way, that leaves the reader wondering about her own ethnicity, she recounts previous social injustice with racial slang as she describes the journey. Undoubtedly, a learned behavior from her early southern environment, which colored her judgment with inappropriate assumptions. Uttering racial insensitive comments, that describe the trek southward, with a diatribe of terms that would be regarded with disdain, in a more modern politically correct society. Reminiscent of a time with plantations and a bygone era of