We should have a new rule on judgement. And it should be this: if you cannot name a single person in the group you 'hate', you cannot judge them.
I'd be up for expanding it to: know them personally.
Not sure quite why or when I was thinking about this, but there seems to be so much hate going on. Hate of this, hate of that, and, with it - of course - judgement.
This hate is so often directed toward people that we do not know. A race, a religion, a region of the world. Yet, when you ask the hater, they know nothing about them.
Like the guy I overheard in Newago, MI, talking about how he was ready for when 'the Muslims invade'. He'd been reading on the internet and has his own guns. I'll judge this man, but I'm pretty sure he knows no Muslims.
Another man I'm going to judge: Kevin Durant.
I hate that the Warriors won this year. I hate even more that Kevin Durant was named MVP of the finals. I especially hated when there was talk of him being the greatest player. Let's look at resumes:
LeBron James - 4 MVP's, 3 Rings, a shit-ton of good for his community, including funding basically all of the youth of Akron, OH to go to college and setting up structures to help them once there. First player to average a triple double in the finals, career playoff point leader, and the list goes on and on.
Michael Jordan- no need to even frame this one.
Kevin Durant - MVP in 2014 because voters were sick of giving the award to LeBron James. Finals MVP because he has two of the best shooters ever on his team so he's left open a lot. 1-Ring because he fled his team to join the one that beat him the year before.
The team he leaves has the MVP.
The team he joins has a worse record.
I don't like it. Durant's team, last year, was up 3-1 on the Warriors. They come back and beat him. He leaves them, and the reigning MVP (Steph Curry) has a worse season.
Maybe we should just add that to LeBron's resume: a single team cannot defeat him, so he has to play the Western Conference All Stars.