Question 63 One should never judge a person by external appearances.

Question 63

Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? One should never judge a person by external appearances. Use specific reasons and details to support your answer.


Answer

People have their own characteristic. It is not appearance but mentality. Because of that, we can not estimate them by appearance. Three reasons for the statement are described in the following.

First, we can pretend our appearance better. Especially, women have this inclination. They make up before they hung out. Their faces amazingly change. Suppose that we judge a person by external appearances, our judges will change before and after they make up. It is estimated that they finish making up in an hour. It means that the judge also change in the same time. It looks strange. We should doubt the judges because they are easily deceived.

Second, our appearances are genetically determined. It is hard to change our appearances. For example, a person has heavy weight. His family are also heavy. The weight is from his family's heredity. In this case, we can not judge him by appearance, for the weight is not from his indulgence.

Finally, our society influences our appearances. We tend to buy clothes following the latest vogue. As long as we wear a new fashion, nobody care us. However, we sometimes wear clothes out of date. People's judge will change to be worse, although our characters are unchanging. It is doubtful that we have to follow a new fashion. The fashions are spurred by commercial tactics.

From the reasons above, we can not judge a person by external appearances. The judges from appearances are doubtful. We easily misjudge the person. We should consider our mentality to judge more accurately.