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comment by deanSolecki
deanSolecki  ·  3207 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why are you so angry?

Your counter-argument doesn't make any sense to me for two reasons:

1) If your parents decided for you that drinking was wrong, the same moral judgment was made, it was just made by some other stranger.

2) The person that feels like they're being judged may not know why someone doesn't drink, but the feeling of being "judged" is more of an introspective, hypothetical thing than "this person is literally judging me."

I don't know that I complete agree with this explanation, as a general rule, but I think it is interesting and there could very well be a lot of truth in it.