No judging
Dystopian rules often tend to be regarded as nice when we apply them to children’s educational settings.
I recently came across a private educational initiative that had a rule against judging. As in you were not allowed to judge others or yourself. If you made something you didn’t like you were not allowed to say it’s bad, you had to say it was not what you intended it to be. All this under the guise of “positive” spirit. Now this is obviously hyper orwellian and should rise a big red flag. But it didn’t appear that way to them, and the genuinely believed it to be a nice thing to do for the children (dystopian rules often tend to be regarded as nice when we apply them to children’s educational settings). So let me break this down clearly. These kinds of “no judging” rules are intrusive, nonsensical and harmful.
(a) intrusive
They are rules on how you think which, besides being obviously non enforceable, also goes against unalienable individual rights. You can rule what I do or say, never what I think.
(b) nonsensical
Judging is a natural, inevitable process. It’s how we learn as individuals. You can’t really stop it, and you sure shouldn’t. You can learn to understand people’s motivations and not judge them negatively as individuals but you’ll still judge their actions, which is alright. But you won’t learn that through pure repression.
© harmful
What you will do instead is adapt your language and hide your judgement. What happens then is that a lot is left unsaid and an atmosphere of distrust can be felt. People can’t be themselves, and we end up in a form of Ned Flanders, happy thoughts dystopia.
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