Word: judgemental
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...Independent columnist David Aaronovitch is scathing of his colleagues' rush to judgement. "Some people emit outrage like elephants' piss," he writes. "The sheer quantity of it soon covers the psychological landscape." He cites a number of accounts suggesting that the revolt was triggered by kamikaze prisoners. "Had, in 1944, a chateau full of captured SS men killed their captors and then holed up inside shooting at anything that moved, I doubt whether anyone now would have called their extinction a 'war crime', he writes. "Even so, we need to have an inquiry into what took place at Qalai Janghi. Because...
With a few colleagues, I spent my Thanksgiving meal squatting on the floor of an Afghan passport office, talking to Taliban fighters about miracles and Judgement...
...expect in paradise?" asks the woman from the Times of London. Amanullah isn't exactly sure - who is? - but he says, "Everything is equal, for men and women in paradise." He then reminds us, with solemn pity, that only True Believers of Islam would be allowed into paradise on Judgement Day. That pretty much leaves us out of the picture...
...proper role of religion to bring human beings to an awareness of the universality of sin. But this awareness must not be allowed to metastasize into a lack of sensitivity to the degrees of evil in this world. The desire not to be judgmental must not make judgement impossible, and thus make injustice inevitable...
...Professional Driving School?” That name sounded about as legitimate to me as “High Quality Fast Food” or “Authentic Mexican-Chinese Cuisine,” but my commitment to learn to drive overrode my better judgement. “Okay,” I said. “Let?...