# Why do people tend to judge a persons character from one belief that they hold? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 17, 2016, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-people-tend-to-judge-a-persons-character-from-one-belief-that-they-hold/754980 "2016-05-17T10:42:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![iljitsch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/77aa72/32.png) [@iljitsch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iljitsch)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2016, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-people-tend-to-judge-a-persons-character-from-one-belief-that-they-hold/754980/61 "2016-05-24T22:09:12Z")
> [@purplehearingaid](#): > > If anyone think rape is funny I would think that person is a rapist or capable of being one ! I know women that been raped and there wasn’t one fucking thing funny about it ! There are many things that we joke about that aren’t funny when they really happen. Doesn’t mean the joke can’t be funny. However… there’s more to jokes than pure humor. They can also show an attitude towards something. Someone who starts telling rape jokes out of the blue, especially to people they don’t know too well, is showing bad judgement and creepiness. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Strangelove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.strangelove/32/6613_2.png) [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2016, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-people-tend-to-judge-a-persons-character-from-one-belief-that-they-hold/754980/62 "2016-05-24T22:47:53Z")
> [@Machine\_Elf](#): > > Are you still thinking it’s a beautiful car, or do you find it impossible to overlook that bizarre hood ornament? But everyone on earth is absolutely covered in these grotesque hood ornaments. I certainly can’t name a family member, friend or acquaintance that has _never_ said something that causes me to groan internally. From a crappy sense of humor to belief in supernatural nonsense to conspiracy theories to hypocrisy to just rank stupidity. We develop blind spots to most of these things because we can’t just go around thinking everyone is an asshole all of the time. However, some people like to really grasp onto one or two bugbears and elevate them into the dominant metric for someone’s character. I guess it’s just another form of tribalism. You can’t easily divide people into convenient groups when there are countless different axes for classifying them. So instead you pick a small number of metrics and can carve out big swaths of people at a time. ---
**Author:** ![CCitizen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4af34b/32.png) [@CCitizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CCitizen)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2016, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-people-tend-to-judge-a-persons-character-from-one-belief-that-they-hold/754980/63 "2016-05-24T23:47:03Z")
> [@iljitsch](#): > > Someone who starts telling rape jokes out of the blue, especially to people they don’t know too well, is showing bad judgement and creepiness. Definitely. In 1990 I got in trouble for jokingly telling my roommate that I will kill him. But when comedians and Rock and Rap munitions lose their jobs for Politically Incorrect art, there is a huge problem. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2016, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-people-tend-to-judge-a-persons-character-from-one-belief-that-they-hold/754980/64 "2016-05-25T02:05:40Z")
> [@CCitizen](#): > > Definitely. In 1990 I got in trouble for jokingly telling my roommate that I will kill him. Possibly it didn’t come out as jokingly as you thought? ---
**Author:** ![CCitizen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4af34b/32.png) [@CCitizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CCitizen)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2016, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-people-tend-to-judge-a-persons-character-from-one-belief-that-they-hold/754980/65 "2016-05-25T02:07:25Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Possibly it didn’t come out as jokingly as you thought? I guess so – I was 20 and socially immature. ---
**Author:** ![Pantastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3bc359/32.png) [@Pantastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pantastic)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2016, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-people-tend-to-judge-a-persons-character-from-one-belief-that-they-hold/754980/66 "2016-05-25T02:14:56Z")
> [@CCitizen](#): > > But when comedians and Rock and Rap munitions lose their jobs for Politically Incorrect art, there is a huge problem. I see absolutely zero problem here. If you make a music video depicting yourself violently murdering your girlfriend, mutilating her body, and dumping it in the ocean, then there are people that don’t want to pay you to perform your music at their venue. You don’t have some kind of entitlement for every college and every music festival to pay for your product, you have to compete with other acts that don’t promote extreme domestic violence. ---
**Author:** ![CCitizen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4af34b/32.png) [@CCitizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CCitizen)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2016, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-people-tend-to-judge-a-persons-character-from-one-belief-that-they-hold/754980/67 "2016-05-25T02:21:17Z")
> [@Pantastic](#): > > I see absolutely zero problem here. If you make a music video depicting yourself violently murdering your girlfriend, mutilating her body, and dumping it in the ocean, then there are people that don’t want to pay you to perform your music at their venue. You don’t have some kind of entitlement for every college and every music festival to pay for your product, you have to compete with other acts that don’t promote extreme domestic violence. These videos are in no way worse then Rhiannas’s videos about killing men in many ways. Any offensive video music is art, and censorship of art is tragic. I would advice Libertarians to buy censored videos to lessen Liberals’ influence on the market. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2016, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-people-tend-to-judge-a-persons-character-from-one-belief-that-they-hold/754980/68 "2016-05-25T02:56:19Z")
> [@Pantastic](#): > > I see absolutely zero problem here. If you make a music video depicting yourself violently murdering your girlfriend, mutilating her body, and dumping it in the ocean, then there are people that don’t want to pay you to perform your music at their venue. You don’t have some kind of entitlement for every college and every music festival to pay for your product, you have to compete with other acts that don’t promote extreme domestic violence. > [@CCitizen](#): > > These videos are in no way worse then Rhiannas’s videos about killing men in many ways. Any offensive video music is art, and censorship of art is tragic. I would advice Libertarians to buy censored videos to lessen Liberals’ influence on the market. People refusing to pay money is not censorship. If I don’t want to buy your “art,” I’m not going to buy your “art,” end of story. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2016, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-people-tend-to-judge-a-persons-character-from-one-belief-that-they-hold/754980/69 "2016-05-25T10:01:38Z")
Censorship is the government preventing people from experiencing your art. What you are describing is market forces. Why do you want to force others to experience “art” which just happens to appeal to you? That is the Fascist approach to culture. Sent from my LG-V410 using Tapatalk [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-people-tend-to-judge-a-persons-character-from-one-belief-that-they-hold/754980.md?page=3)