Judge and Jury

I've come to the conclusion about my surrounding pseudo "Bible-belt" community; a lot of people love to rush to judgement. If someone makes a mistake or does something socially unacceptable, people love to give their "two cents " on the matter. When someone shares their thoughts on life as they see it, people rush to comment with their "logic and objective truths." Someone decides to start a business or begin dating somebody that others don't approve of; here comes those ignoramuses again running off at the mouth. By the time they finish with their "sermonette", the individual's path has been detoured to a more arduous and unpleasant road. Let's say how thousands of innocent Americans are sent to prison every year for crime they didn't do. A D.A. plans on becoming a judge and needs enough jail sentences to expand their portfolio. Petty drug deals, warrants that's been dropped for over a decade , or a snitch has to pay back a debt by ratting on a friend. Their mind is that these people he or she is targeting is guilty, unworthy of freedom and even a "means to an end" (mostly to boost their fragile self esteem/ego). This is what we call a "rush to judgement." Now I haven't read the bible in a while but one thing that still keeps me in check from becoming a judge and jury to my family (although i still do at times, I'm such a hypocrite, i.e. Lebron jumping ship back to Cleveland), is something Paul says, "judge nothing before it's time." People love to shoot first but most of the time wound or even kill the wrong target. In other words, they try to preside over the courtroom of other people's lives, then as a jury, deliberate and reach a judgement. After the finding has been rendered, they step back into the stead of a judge and sentence people to hard time. These hard times include f-ing up their rep, helping expand the fiery problems they're already experiencing, and criminalizing someone without love or consolation. This is a common occurrence in the area I live in. There are a lot of open minded people who adapt to an ever changing world. However, you have those who are "indoctrinated" into a closed minded lifestyle that are trained to be judge and jury. I believe if there was a lack of judge and jury in our society, our world would be a better place (not a utopia). Well, I couldn't say all i needed to say but I'll have some more thoughts tomorrow.

Til next time.....