ext_36505 ([identity profile] imomus.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] imomus 2010-02-09 11:19 pm (UTC)

What you're calling "condemnation" I call "discrimination". Discrimination -- judgment -- is essential to all cultural activity. Sure, Buddhism (with its yin-yang thing) and PC (which makes judgmentalism and discrimination into new sins) have attacked that. But, seriously, there's nobody who isn't going to condemn the captain who lands the plane with a bump or form a judgment about the chef who burns the soup. There's no point saying "burnt soup is the background to perfect soup, they need each other to mean anything" or "Let's not leap to condemnation of this careless pilot too quickly!"

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