Personal Day - Before Holidays

acequion

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I take it from the above that you don't teach English. People form and express judgements all the time, and people are judged all the time. He's good looking. She's a kind person. Yer man is bone idle. That lot are a dirty team. And so on.

If I was in favour of getting off work with the aid of a false medical cert, I'd probably want others not to make judgements about my beliefs and behaviour. Why? Because I'd be somewhat embarrassed about it, that's why.

But my wishes wouldn't stop people making their judgements, because that's what people do. And if I attempted to wish away their judgement and my sense of embarrassment with emotive bluster and poorly-analysed semantics, it wouldn't really help. Maybe for a few minutes, but not for any decent length of time. I'd still know it was wrong, and the embarrassment would still creep back.




I have a feeling you don't at all mind judging others. You just don't like others judging you. That's a common enough view of things.

Anyway, we have different views about the merits of getting time off on the basis of fake medical certs, and we aren't convincing each other. So let's stop wasting bandwidth. Cheers.

Your post pretty much exemplifies everything I said earlier. Cheers to you too.

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OK we'll leave it there then folks...

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