Comment by Dylan16807
13 days ago
If free will doesn't exist then you "shouldn't" judge people for their choices but also you can't stop yourself from doing so.
If free will does exist then yes you can judge people for their choices.
Everyone is capable of redemption but saying they need redemption is judging them.
A few things:
1. You can't judge the person, you can judge the behavior
2. To judge the person requires the ability to quantify the unquantifiable (circumstance, sequence of events leading to the outcome, going back to the literal beginning of time).
3. To judge the person implies a superiority to that person
Sure, one can take/justify simplistic shortcuts for practical reasons. But some forget that's what they are - shortcuts that bypass the nuances/reality of the situation.