Do you have any prejudices?

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I am a human being. That means that I am prejudiced in some way.

You can't be a human being and NOT categorize your understanding of the world around you based upon direct experience, and the narratives you hear that may or may not reflect real events.

Because the model in my head is how I assess the possible future events resulting from my immediate actions or choices, I have a biologically vested interest in believing that model to be reliable and useful... so, like all other human beings, I tend to seek or give more weight to information or perspectives that validate my belief systems. This is called confirmation bias... something to which we are ALL prone.

And.. like all people, I tend to be guilty of Primary Attribution error... that is, I judge others actions more harshly than I tend to judge similar actions on my own part.

I see someone zoom past me and think they drive like a lunatic... while certain that my own zooming past other drivers is acceptable because THEy are driving too slow.

Or, like the OP... I detest Dickishness in others... but feel my own Dickishness is laudable.


So yeah.. we are all prejudiced...and there is no one who is innocent of it.
In some respects we ought to fight these tendencies with understanding of them as such.

And in others... we could not make sense of the world without the ability to categorize and assume.

The proper course is to always suspect our snap judgements and always be willing to change our minds in light of a less prejudiced understanding.