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« on: April 03, 2006, 02:58:19 AM »
Ms. Dreadful... I will not judge Dork* by the standards of his time; why not? Because I judge by my personal standards, not some shifting conformist standard that I just soaked in passively and mindlessly from the "times" I happen to be living in. The present day world doesn't measure up awfully well to me.
I do try to take context into account, though. I judge people for doing crappy things, but judge less severely if there really was absolutely no one in a person's environment saying this or that was wrong. In general, though, I do pass judgement on automatic conformity to standards of the "community", just to get by and get along, and be popular.
*-- A genuine Freudian typo, I guess! (Dirk)