Bailiff

Honestly, I would love to see a parent read and explain to his their very impressionable child. Why? Well, throughout the Handbook Epictetus questions our competence to judge. Or our judgments themselves. We have been taught very little about judgment and how to judge in a direct manner. (Off the top of my head) we have been told upfront not to judge a book by its cover. In other words, things aren’t always what they seem to be. Indirectly (as a life lesson) we have learned how to judge character by looking at someone. Don’t you just love how society contradicts itself? We’re told to know before we judge but then we judge people by appearance in order to judge their character.
To judge character you need to detail the person. Their body gestures, their speech and interaction with others. This just enforces stereotypes. When you make a decision about the person, you then classify them or connect them to some other person in your life. For a moment lets just say that this is terrible and it shouldn’t be done. In order to judge the person you have to get know them better. I’m going to extremes by saying that this might put your life in danger, but that’s what it is.
This lack of knowing how to judge is what has our society like it is. Unstable, greedy and broken up into pieces. I’m not suggesting that I know how to judge, but I’m proposing that we consider other ways to judge.