I feel like we hear this a lot in today's society, and frankly I get annoyed by it. Sometimes I get annoyed because it's used as a cop out to keep someone from any kind of accountability, but more often than not because the phrase is so nebulous and vaguely used. What does it mean to "judge" another person?
For me personally, judging another person applies mostly to judging their heart and relationship with God based on their actions, and I'm not supposed to "lest I be judged" myself.
Some people seem to use it a little more liberally. Say I walk in on a person shooting puppies and dancing around them, and they say, "Don't judge me". I guess that implies total moral relativism, and that they expect me to basically not have any kind of a negative opinion on the matter.
I guess another option would be for a person to say it after I find out something compromising about them. If I find out a person is using heroin, they could tell me not to judge them. This makes a little more sense as it implies there are extenuating circumstances, or in more general sense, that they are trying to improve upon themselves. On a slightly different note, if I found out that a person was using marijuana, they could say the same thing, but have it more directed at dispelling my possible preconceived notions about the activity or the person's character.
I'm going to guess that the most agreeable use of the phrase is to ward off premature judgement in light of extenuating circumstances. Say if a person misses work, but they have a good reason for it. But I would guess that also gets tied up a lot with differing morals and values as well (like say, alcohol use)
I'm sure there are more situations than this, and more meanings to the use of the phrase, so I'm interested in what other people have to say about this.
For me personally, judging another person applies mostly to judging their heart and relationship with God based on their actions, and I'm not supposed to "lest I be judged" myself.
Some people seem to use it a little more liberally. Say I walk in on a person shooting puppies and dancing around them, and they say, "Don't judge me". I guess that implies total moral relativism, and that they expect me to basically not have any kind of a negative opinion on the matter.
I guess another option would be for a person to say it after I find out something compromising about them. If I find out a person is using heroin, they could tell me not to judge them. This makes a little more sense as it implies there are extenuating circumstances, or in more general sense, that they are trying to improve upon themselves. On a slightly different note, if I found out that a person was using marijuana, they could say the same thing, but have it more directed at dispelling my possible preconceived notions about the activity or the person's character.
I'm going to guess that the most agreeable use of the phrase is to ward off premature judgement in light of extenuating circumstances. Say if a person misses work, but they have a good reason for it. But I would guess that also gets tied up a lot with differing morals and values as well (like say, alcohol use)
I'm sure there are more situations than this, and more meanings to the use of the phrase, so I'm interested in what other people have to say about this.
