I never thought that enjoying or favoring one variety of banana over another would cause me to start thinking that appearances could actually determine the insides of a person.
The fruit for instance, based from past experience, would always tell whether they taste good (with a tangy sourness to the sweetness) or not, or whether their insides have rough gritty spots or not, just by the look of their skin peel.
But there are exceptional cases when despite the color of the skin (dark and blotchy) the banana does not contain any of those unpleasant “bumps”. However, the taste is still incomparable to the lighter-colored, smooth-skinned ones.
Some people would disagree to that, such as my mother, who has this habit of disagreeing with me anyways. But suffice it to say, different strokes - or tastes for that matter - for different folks.
I just wonder if you could say the same thing for humans.
Based on a person’s height, built, color of the skin, the clothes they wear, and the way they move, can someone actually tell whether they are socially acceptable or a public menace?
Criminology experts and those who have made it their life career to track down miscreants in the populace would most likely give a positive yes to that. But those who live in the cloak and dagger underworld would most likely disagree. They would probably argue that they are merely trying to “mimic” the enemy. For after all, you have to know your enemy, intimately if possible, in order to know their weakness, and therefore know how to beat them.
However, these are special cases. Some even more extreme which involved changing their whole sexual identity, which most likely, goes very well with the gay world, and why some heads of state thought it best to promote their service in the military. These are now seemingly the new “unsung heroes (or heroines)” of society.
We could probably argue over and over again about all the political and economical merits versus the glaring societal or cultural setbacks, and all the time-tested and historically documented ethical and moral values that these decisions may have overturned, but I am getting off the subject.
The question still remains as to whether one can really judge a book by it’s cover or not? I would like to venture, and even to the degree of absolute positivity, that yes, we can indeed.
“Actions speak louder than words,” “what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger,” “no pain no gain,” are just a number of slogans out there that try to make confusing, and oftentimes hurtful, events more explainable and palatable to the sufferer. For after all, to the religious, this is the inevitable state of one’s life and the only means to triumph is to endure and persevere (ergo No Pain No Gain). For the not so religious or even total agnostics, however, life is what you make it (or can be Actions Speak Louder). And so on and so forth, no matter how these slogans are taken way out of context.
As for not falling into any conclusion just yet - despite the fact that a person exudes a considerable amount of animosity each time they speak; or a diplomatic face that shows nothing but a lingering mix of joking mockery and malice; or that a stranger would pretend to apologize after failing to make a pass at someone - I totally disagree with that and believe that we do have the right to make judgments right then and there. Failure to do so would allow such people, whether by habit or upbringing, to believe that they are not accountable to plain decency and to other people’s sanity.
I know that “better to be safe than sorry,” can be just another expletive to hide some hidden paranoia, but “first impressions [do] last,” and trauma lasts for a lifetime.
As to what the outcome will be, or the action taken after the act of judgement, be it worthy or not for public consumption, is for the law of cause and effect to decide. But it would surely send a clear message to those who choose to be numb and blind to their real selves, that they are not above anyone, no matter their beliefs, culture, experiences whether good or bad, historical value, status in life, and whether or not they are victims themselves.
As for the rest of us who believe that life is really not that complicated; questions those who are making it so to hide their innate greed and penchant for lying; and believe that our brains are created to be put to good use such as pragmatic and practical reasoning, we can be rest assured that our actions could never harm anyone, with the exception of course, of the abnormally obtrusive and shameless.
That being said, we can, however, make an exception when it comes to an inanimate book and it’s lowly cover, which I think is the only appropriate scenario for the slogan in question.
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