Hi again David, despite the rocky start I was wondering if you might be up for discussing this. I am biased— but not blinded.

And, while we can apply the concept of false equivalency to many topics and subjects, I don’t believe it so clear cut when it comes to judgement.

As a human expression, judgement is toxic. And for fuel it relies on our sacred humanity.

This toxicity comes into our world through the judge. Whether it is Tim or David judging another, does not matter, nor does the target of the judgement.

You can put a hundred different people in front of us— all flawed and broken in their own way and guilty of some action our contemporary world deems worthy of judgement — but it won’t matter what they have done.

Their relationship with life is theirs.

The target is not what’s important when it comes to judgement, but the human expression of the judge.

That’s why a genuine love for all life and every human being is so important to the health and wellbeing of life.

It would be great if life — that’s the greater life we belong to — benefitted from our judgment of those we deem inadequate or inappropriate.

But it doesn’t.

And by judging others publicly we ensure others will join in the chorus and then we have ourselves a digital stoning.

Pure love is not selective. That’s what judgement is.

David, I am biased.

I am biased towards contributing to a world where human expression is nourishing and supportive of life.

This world is full of pointless noise, and most of it poison to life.

We know this because we are all feeling it.

If our world only knew what it was doing to life, and who was actually doing it, it would change in a heartbeat.

I apologise for the tone and vibe of my first response.

And hope you don’t mind my second.

I’ll leave it there.

What is also true to the human experience is our opinions will differ. But we will still want to share them.

There is a massive difference between placing ‘judgement’ on a situation and asserting one’s thoughts on that situation, as opposed to expressing personal attacks on those who do not fit our individual idea of what a ‘good’ person is or isn’t.

All the best David.

Tim