Never judge a man

"Never judge a man until you have walked a mile in his moccasins."
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One of the things that annoys me most is the apparent superiority some people possess, that enables them to believe they have the right to judge the actions and lives of others!

Those that choose to live this way and make their judgements are, at the very least, not usually in possession of all the facts concerning a given situation, but never let it be said that this might prevent them for one moment, from casting their eye over others they have little or no true knowledge of, and swiftly pronouncing ill informed 'sentence'.

The specifics of a scenario don't concern me, that is not the point, the point is that there is usually much more to be known in any given scenario, than the information an outsider is privy too and few situations occur without there being complicated and protracted reasons behind them, be they political, personal or other.

We do of course have laws (though some of those are questionable) and commonly accepted levels of ethical and moral function, which in the main the majority adhere too but why do some feel that there is no way of living different to their own that is acceptable? Why is it that an individual or group who choose to live a different way of life are deemed by those in their self imposed position of judgement, by default, to be wrong? Why if a chosen path is harming no one else, or if it is chosen out of necessity, or if it is forced by circumstance, that some see it as a lesser way to live and something to be derided, punished or worse?

Is it because the very same people who make these judgements are those individuals who are in a position from which they perhaps would be better scrutinising their own behaviour instead of that of others, is it because in their own lives they feel something is perhaps lacking somewhere, is it envy at something they would feel unable to do for themselves in reality or is it simply their fear of something they don't understand and aren't prepared to attempt to see deeper into to, for concern that what they might find outside of their box might upset the apple cart?

I have no idea really why one should feel it appropriate to judge another, even in very dire circumstances, but I do think that no one of us has the right to make a judgement on another without being in possession of the full facts....and even then I doubt we have that right. Should we not instead be using our energies to try and see deeper into things that are outside of our own life experience and gain a little more understanding and compassion for things we don't yet truly understand?