TKAM Blog Prompt 2

1.) What do you think is involved in making a fair judgement about a person or situation?

2.) Describe on paper in everyday situation in which one person might judge another incorrectly.

3.) What things can interfere with making a fair judgement?

When making a fair judgement about a person or situation, the person must not be influenced by external circumstances such as pressure from the public. To make a fair judgement, the person has to base on evidences from different Point of Views and using the information learnt in Art and Acts of Thinking, to use the Paul’s Wheel of Reasoning, making sure that everything has been taken into consideration before making a fair judgement. In an everyday situation, there could be many misunderstandings, from work to at school, this usually happens with people with different social statuses. In usual circumstances, people with higher authority may abuse their power to accuse others, besides, there could be cases where people jump too quickly, accusing the wrong person. Some things can interfere with making a fair judgement would be the three types of mindsets people have, the Kantian view, which is the group of people who do the right things based on moral domains and rights. Others have the Utilitarian view, which is people make decisions for the sake of everyone else, in which it will bring happiness to most people. The last one would be the ethical egoism view, which is to make decisions for one’s self-interests.