Of course I judge you.

Chris Jones
6 min readMar 6, 2021

You do it right back. And there’s nothing wrong with that.

The problem isn’t judging — we all do that instinctively, as an involuntary reaction to stimulus. You like this smell, you don’t like that one. You like the taste of this but not that. You despise practical jokes, or you find them hilarious. Some of that is hard-wired into your DNA, some of it is learned from experience, and some is mysterious — we’re all some bundle of these.

None of that matters. The question isn’t “do you judge”, because of course you do. And hardly…

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Chris Jones

Working writer, teacher of historical things, professor of logic, rhetoric, and poetics at Mount Liberty College (.org). Wild-eyed romantic. I believe.