Quote by Kei-kunNow this is my
area of expertise. I'm a psychologist, and this behavior
is perfectly justifiable.
It's a natural heuristic that we humans use to solve and read our
situations and objects.
This judgment is purely a short-cut to define attributes to items which
hence reduce cognitive load in our minds. This indeed would seem wrong
to the actual person, but it's really something that we all do.
Otherwise we would all be thinking of one person for hours on end
trying to read precisely who or what they are.
Another prejudgment would be on psychologists. ^_^
They ask me what do I do? I say I'm a psychologist. They say: Oh! A
mind-reader, go on please read my mind. :P Hahaha.
XD Haha that takes me back to my psych classes ahhh, I loved learning about heuristics...
Anyway, yes, it is completely natural to do these shortcuts and judge people and things by the little that we know about
them. I do it all the time. I know it's wrong to hold an opinion of someone completely by a thought process
comparing a person to a set idea in your head though so I just use it as a guideline to try and help me get to know a
person.
And frankly... on the matter of people doing part-time work all there lives being useless and not deserving to live that
is completely uncalled for. I'm an intelligent individual and I'm going to university, but I really don't
have much drive to do something overly constructive with my life and would be perfectly content to be a housewife. Would
that make me less of a person than people who do part-time work? What if those people who do part time work really would
like to do something else for their lives, but are stuck in these dead-end jobs because they're paying off student
loans and are doing their best just to get by and can't get into the work they're trained to do? What if
they're a person that likes to experience all sorts of part-time work and purposely go from job to job looking for
new experiences?
Everyone has their reasons for being where they are and I'd never look down on someone who is content with doing
dishes, or working at McDonalds because there are things that need to be done. Would you look down on the person that
collects the trash? Ok, go ahead. No think of what would happen if there was no one to collect trash, most people would
just keep piling it up waitiing for it to be picked up, but it never happens, what then? What if you're hungry and
go to a fast food place, but it's closed because no one would work there because it's a dead-end job and they
don't want to be caught in a cycle?
Saying that people who are content to do menial labor are useless and don't deserve to live is way off. In fact,
you'd be more useless for considering it because everyone needs the little guy at some time. Every job has
it's merit. Don't dis them.
