Ears were given to distinguish sounds.

These sounds are inspected, sorted, ranked, and judged.

Tested.

In other words, we are critical thinking machines.

We involuntarily think and judge simultaneously.

Every idea presented to us is tasted by our ears to distinguish the amount of rightness and wrongness, urgency and importance.

This Amazing Ability Is Under Fire.

Unfortunately, we often feel guilty for testing the words of others as though it is evil.

Many of us have learned to associate questioning someone’s words with abuse.

Maybe we think this way because people have reacted to our criticism or push-back with defensiveness and offense.

It only takes a few “who are you to judge” reactions to persuade us that correction or refinement from others is a sign of rejection.

However, it gets worse than that.

The conviction that seeps into our modern hearts typically isn’t that our judgment is wrong, it’s that our judgment is evil.

The true hell of it is that our supposedly wicked act of judgment is being condemned by an act of judgment.

We become the evil that we are trying to avoid—like being allergic to ourselves!

And this is inevitable because humans will never be able to stop testing words.

We were made for critical thinking.

That’s why the belief that judgment is evil can only lead to self-hatred.