What's interesting about this is that the writer has no interest in understanding the person they are castigating at all. Everyone I know has some element of sloppyness, naivety, laziness... some defects in character and judgement, some biases in evaluating information... but the writer's words imply that they themselves sit outside of these traps that the rest of us fall into - that they have managed to escape such errors and so are now qualified to sit in judgement upon others...It is honestly the besetting sin of those who class themselves up as qualified to control the actions of others. The one thing that is always lacking is any form of humility...
This reminds me of a few friends of mine who have the same exact issue. Quick to judge my shortcomings as if they're beyond infallible, no honest attempts to understand my perspective, etc.
What's interesting about this is that the writer has no interest in understanding the person they are castigating at all. Everyone I know has some element of sloppyness, naivety, laziness... some defects in character and judgement, some biases in evaluating information... but the writer's words imply that they themselves sit outside of these traps that the rest of us fall into - that they have managed to escape such errors and so are now qualified to sit in judgement upon others...It is honestly the besetting sin of those who class themselves up as qualified to control the actions of others. The one thing that is always lacking is any form of humility...
This reminds me of a few friends of mine who have the same exact issue. Quick to judge my shortcomings as if they're beyond infallible, no honest attempts to understand my perspective, etc.
Cheers :) I would say that this is a distillation of what I learnt from a combination of Thomas Sowell and Marshall Rosenberg...