In one of the classes that I took, we had this one interesting discussion about Judging other people. The Professor asked us to think about something or someone we judged that day even though it wasn't necessary to do so.

People shared their experiences and at one point, the discussion turned into, but what if most of the people around you bond over judging others?

The professor agreed and mentioned the division in US today. How people are automatically judged based off their political preferences. I think the same goes for your day to day life when you see someone wearing something unusual or doing something you're not used to seeing and suddenly, you take a picture of the person and send it to your best friends, post it on social media or maybe even just talk about how weird it was.

It had not been clear to me how much that type of judgment affects us until my Professor asked the question: do you think it's bad that we bond over judgments about others?

Having judgments about other people is inevitable, in my opinion, because our brain cannot take in every single thing that comes to us so it resorts to simplifying it, but, if it comes to a point when we are justifying those judgments by voicing it out without actually testing for ourselves if our judgments were true or not, I think that's dangerous.

Not only would it divide you from the people whom you have judged, you have also created a wall around you, and the more you do it, the taller that wall becomes, so that whenever you talk with your friends, you feel less willing to come off as stupid for the fear of being someone who was judged instead of the judge-r.