Today I am thinking about judging as I am the guest judge for one of my favourite photo pages on Facebook Amateur Digital Photography tonight.
I am looking through the wonderful images and having a really hard time to be honest and objective enough to choose the best ones because it is impossible.
Firstly, one cannot be objective. We are all subjective. Always. With all our values, cultural background, education, ethics, bias and everything else.
Secondly, everything depends on the mood of the day. Today maybe I am in the mood that I like X but do not like Y and tomorrow it can be via versa. It has to be really tricky with moody judges at the court who decides about people´s lives...
Finally, it seems wrong to judge at all. And then I started to think about all the different meanings of the word "judge" which seems to be much more tricky in English if one compares with Swedish "döma" and "värdera"= Latvian "spriest" and "vērtēt". It seems to be so easy to judge others as "värdera" and "vērtēt". Oh my god, look at her clothes/make-up/etc.! Is he crazy to say like that?!? At the same time when we have to judge in the other way ("döma"/"spriest") it is not simply at all. He/she is guilty. His/her picture is good enough. Enough???
So I am wondering why is it so easy to judge and have opinions about others when we should not care or have opinions and why it seems so hard to judge when we are supposed to do that?
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