Judgments and Perceptions

It is within human nature to instantly and on some fundamental and genetic level to judge everything we are exposed to. This harkens back to our evolutionary inheritance of the fight or flight response. Given that perspective, I believe we incapable of not judging on some raw unconscious level. I do believe that we can come to understand our initial reactions and in applying our own experiences and logical thoughts we can control our initial gut reaction. It is through our life experiences, understanding of the world, and appreciation for other people’s thoughts and ideas that we can adjust our initial judgments towards others. Whether these adjustments to our perspective judgments are fair, is purely up to the individual. People in our society who are not following the social norm for how they treat people, or how they react to situations tend to get their behavior altered over time. In short, Society itself has a way of creating this fair and balanced perspective.