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Originally Posted by renie408  What I don't get is how it is wrong to make judgments about certain behaviors that are destructive. I was recently listening to Wayne Dyer and he stated that we should not make any judgments at all, about anything. What about child molesters? What is wrong with judging that as wrong? |
Can you definitively say that, if you were in the child molester's shoes, that you would not behave in the exact same way?
Perhaps it is the case that the very same child molester you judge as being 'bad' was himself molested as a child and became so disturbed by the event that the only way he knew how to deal with it was to reciprocate in his adult life.
Because we know no circumstances other than our own, how can it possibly be right to judge anyone else as 'good' or 'bad' (even child molesters)? In fact it is exactly nonjudgmental compassion that these people need most, and is our only chance if we want to help change them for the better.