Judge people by actions not what they say.

You are arguing the opposite, that we should judge by what they say and not what they do?

TeMPOraL 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The problem is that people have a million stories to explain the observed actions, most of those stories are bullshit, and people repeating them know fuck all about the decision-space in which these actions were chosen and taken.

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UncleMeat 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Hm. I guess we can't possibly judge the guy who threw the molotov cocktail. He could have been clearing a wasps nest.

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Lerc 3 hours ago | parent [-]

This is a accidentally good example, we don't know what motivated him, while your ridiculous reason is unsound because it would be also a bad thing to do if he were clearing a wasps nest on someone else's property in the middle of the night.

I suspect that they are not a bad person but someone radicalised by the media they consume.

Firebombing someone's house is a bad thing to do. It doesn't mean they are necessarily a bad person. Anger and confusion can make good people do bad things.

	▲	UncleMeat 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I don't care if Altman is secretly a good person. I care very deeply that he is taking actions to harm the world in grievous ways and is not doing any visible thing to mitigate the extreme damage he will do. "Altman is secretly a good guy" doesn't pay people's mortgages.

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Lerc 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Judge their actions, consider what they say as given in good faith and praise or criticize.

To judge the people is to pretend you know why they did or said something.