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We live in a culture where people sit on the sidelines and pass a lot of strong judgments.

We look at people we don't know and decide whether they're good or bad people.

We look at complicated situations in difficult projects and cleanly label them successes

or failures, despite having little understanding of what went on behind the scenes.

We take an instance of behavior where a tiny interaction, the way someone talked to

us at the grocery store or decision they made and extrapolate out who that person is and

what motivates them.

As we've talked about before, the result of these snap judgments is not merely misery

for us, but an overwhelmingly negative view of humanity and of the world.

It is no way to live.

Which is why when you feel the urge to decide as an outsider or as an observer that you

know who someone is or what it means, you should stop yourself.

Stop yourself and consider this prompt from Epic Titus.

Until you know their reasons, how do you know that they have acted wrongly?

What Epic Titus is not saying is that you should sit there and try to think about why

Hitler and Stalin murdered so many people.

He's not saying that right and wrong are relative and that truly awful things can be

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