How do you judge/categorize a person
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* NOT a bull****ter ate up with their own ficticious accomplishments. You know the type. There is not an important person they've not met, or a mountain they've not climbed, or a gun they've not used to hit quarters at 500 yards.
* NOT a sportsfan whose idea of "recreation" is watching a ballgame
* NOT a testosterone poisoned jock
* NOT a smoker, drug user or drinker (okay, a tad of the latter but not to where it hurts the family budget or starts ruling their/our lives.
* NOT a religious person because disagreements there will tear friendships apart (an honest athiest would be even better)
Now the positives:
1 - Intelligence (no degree needed but at least some college and a passion to keep learning more with an IQ in the top few percent so they can understand what I'm saying).
2 - Patriot and Constitutionalist (not a liberal traitor who talks but stabs us in the back with ever more regulatory infringements and overseas sellouts)
3 - Gun owner and shooter (but not someone who likes to shoot anything that moves or animals just for the sport of it (unless they're prairie dogs
4 - Dog lover (horseperson would be even better)
5 - Reader of speculative fiction, science, history or whatever (but not bonehead fiction)
6 - Quiet and reserved (not an extroverted party animal)
7 - Frugal and Self-reliant (willing to work enough to get by and pay the bills)
* NOT a sportsfan whose idea of "recreation" is watching a ballgame
* NOT a testosterone poisoned jock
* NOT a smoker, drug user or drinker (okay, a tad of the latter but not to where it hurts the family budget or starts ruling their/our lives.
* NOT a religious person because disagreements there will tear friendships apart (an honest athiest would be even better)
Now the positives:
1 - Intelligence (no degree needed but at least some college and a passion to keep learning more with an IQ in the top few percent so they can understand what I'm saying).
2 - Patriot and Constitutionalist (not a liberal traitor who talks but stabs us in the back with ever more regulatory infringements and overseas sellouts)
3 - Gun owner and shooter (but not someone who likes to shoot anything that moves or animals just for the sport of it (unless they're prairie dogs
4 - Dog lover (horseperson would be even better)
5 - Reader of speculative fiction, science, history or whatever (but not bonehead fiction)
6 - Quiet and reserved (not an extroverted party animal)
7 - Frugal and Self-reliant (willing to work enough to get by and pay the bills)
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If they look me in the eye steady and speak in a rational manner and practice the Golden Rule. Anything else might be a target.
To the extent that I "judge" people I go by:
1. The way they treat others, especially those close to them.
2. Honesty, their straightforwardness.
3. Their intelligence, which I tend to judge by their reasoning skills. If they can not logically support their arguments, I tend to discount their point of view. Hypocrisy, weather they are aware of it or not, is even worse.
Thanks for a good question. Until I though about the answer, I didn’t realize how I was judging item #3.
1. The way they treat others, especially those close to them.
2. Honesty, their straightforwardness.
3. Their intelligence, which I tend to judge by their reasoning skills. If they can not logically support their arguments, I tend to discount their point of view. Hypocrisy, weather they are aware of it or not, is even worse.
Thanks for a good question. Until I though about the answer, I didn’t realize how I was judging item #3.
I'm inclined to think that we all, consciously or subconsciously, judge others. Much as I would like to say I don't judge other people, I really don't think that's the truth.
My standards are:
A need to do the right thing, regardless of costs/ramifications/whathaveyou, or to at least seek it out and do it as nearly as possible;
and integrity.
My standards are:
A need to do the right thing, regardless of costs/ramifications/whathaveyou, or to at least seek it out and do it as nearly as possible;
and integrity.