Allan Milne Lees
1 min readApr 19, 2021

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It's also completely true that we don't need to assess anything about anyone, because that's just being judgmental and is therefore a priori wrong. Need someone to carry a heavy load? Just give it to anyone at all, even a small child. Because assessing strength is very, very wrong. Need someone to lift something down from that high shelf? Just ask anyone, because assessing anyone's height is very, very, very wrong. Want someone to pilot your airplane? Just ask anyone to do it, because assessing competence - which is perilously close to assessing intelligence - is so wrong I can barely even write it here. We should absolutely live in a world of zero judgements. Especially when we're looking at massive troop deployments on the border of Ukraine, or genocide in Myanmar, or the extinction of democracy in Hong Kong. What right have we to judge these things when all we're really doing is imposing our own biased notions? I don't expect anyone to disagree with anything I've written here, because that would be appallingly judgmental.

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Allan Milne Lees
Allan Milne Lees

Written by Allan Milne Lees

Anyone who enjoys my articles here on Medium may be interested in my books Why Democracy Failed and The Praying Ape, both available from Amazon.

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