We have all heard the saying "hate the crime and not the criminal". While I agree that in some cases good people make really bad mistakes, I got to wondering whether it is always possible to separate the crime from the criminal. In a lot of situations, what a person does is reflection of who the person is. In such cases, how do you separate the crime from the criminal? For instance, if a really poor man after starving for days ends up stealing, you may be able to not hate the man even though you may a absolutely hate what he did. However, if someone habitually commits domestic violence can you really just dislike what the person does without disliking the person? Even in our daily lives, if we see someone misbehaving with or hurting people we care about, it is possible to merely dislike what the person does without letting it affect the way we feel about the person? And if that is indeed possible, is it really fair to the person who is being hurt if nobody feels any differently about the person causing the hurt?
While I believe that people should be tolerant towards others, maybe just sometimes judging people for their actions is the right thing do. Especially if what they do is a reflection of the kind of person that they are. Otherwise people who do wrong would never face any consequence for their actions unless what they do is severe enough to have them formally punished by an authority.
Maybe.....
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