Some of us think the same way and take a proactive approach to life and parenting. I refuse to give in to those pressures and actually do make a serious effort to affect myself and those around me in a positive way.

Good to have you on the forum.

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As far as people living by certain norms, I think norms are good in many instances. We should have a sense of decency and morality. This has nothing to do with religion it is just civilized behavior. We all have a sense of what is right and wrong and nomatter how hard we try we will always judge others according to our own beliefs. I think people will always judge eachother. I think it is just human nature. Without realizing it, you probably judge each person you come into contact with even before you speak to them. This doesn't mean that your initial opinions are etched in stone and that you can't give people a chance to change your poinion.

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Fundamentally, I think you're absolutely right, but I don't think of what we humans constantly and inevitably do as (necessarily) "judging" per se -- because that suggests a kind of finality -- so much as "evaluating" and "reevaluating" people and things on an instantaneous and continuous basis. What I hope for myself (but probably achieve far too seldom) is to leave things as open as possible in order to let new information come in for me to process and integrate and only to move toward "closure" or "judgment" to the minimum extent necessary to take action, when that is necessary or helpful to do.

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It has been mentioned in this thread that everyone has a sense of right and wrong, well this might be true, but it does not mean that the sense of right and wrong one person has is the same as anothers.

At the end of the day most "normal" people can decide for themselves what to watch, and act sensibly as a result of having partaken. Unfortunately there are people that are not capable of this. There are a number of psychological disorders that are really nothing more than someone not having the same view of moral standards as the rest of society. Censorship laws protect them from society, and society from them.

I hope what I said made sense... if not let me know and I will try and decrypt lol

Welcome to the forums Cindy, I assume thats you in the avatar, if so you need to post more often so we can see your gorgeous pic more often ;-)

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Nice Rorschach Test, though.
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Edited by - lindi on 6/22/2003 11:09:24 AM

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Well, if only to elucidate my sense of this thread (which is a free-form one, without a doubt), here is how I read it:

Cindy wrote:

I hope this was helpful in interpreting the "ink blots".
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Edited by - Bob on 6/22/2003 2:51:25 PM

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