It is a normal human quality to judge. Pre - judge in fact. It is instinctive and everyone does it, it is part of our survival instinct to make instant appraisals. Being self aware and reflecting on your ideas, your thought process and the past experiences that influence the inferences that you arrive at can be insightful. We are in charge of our own judgement, we have the power to make a difference by analyzing our own automatic critique, but it requires commitment self analysis and not always pretty or easy. As far as convincing others of their bias, that can be a challenge. It challenges them on a very personal level.
We only see the world from our own perspective, generally a very concrete and fixed perspective, established over time as a result of experience or information / misinformation and continually reinforced.
Choosing to view the world from a different perspective and even attempt objectivity or an alternate point of view requires trust, intelligence, confidence and safety.
I'm not sure if these are inert enduring human qualities. I would like to think they are or could be, but history doesn't fill me with confidence. But maybe that is just my biased view, a direct result of my own judgment with reference to my own narrow experience and perspective.
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Yup, automatic thinking, then deeper reflective critical thinking of ourselves and what we first thought of to see if our automatic first assessment is accurate enough or can be improved upon.
Trust, intelligence, confidence and safety as innate human qualities? Sure. We trust, we have to, as we can't verify everything others say. Society and cooperation is based on trust. We all have intelligence and confidence in certain degrees, and we all like to feel safe. Thanks for the feedback.