STAYING OFF BIAS

 STAYING OFF BIAS

As we progress into life, slowly responsibilities get associated with our activities at home, office and in social gatherings. Necessarily, we have to function with persons known or unknown.

Such occasions provide us the opportunity to view, assess and evaluate the persons around. Those moments are ripe for attitudes of bias in our interactions. Any obvious showing of bias is unwelcome, as it can destroy harmony.

Cordial disposition is important as a part of our interaction with others. It is an intricate exercise to stay off bias, as it demands a very high level of tolerance even on the face of unpalatable happenings.

Bias arises from inaccurate judgment. Judgment relates to how we assess a person for his or her disposition to issues or individuals. The criterion is politeness or otherwise in a person’s approach towards the item. Those who are polite appeal to us as of  being ‘obedient’ and others as either less obedient or ‘disobedient’.

What have obedience and disobedience to do with honesty and objectivity? Seeming to be obedient is more tolerated than an apparently open or crude expression. 

In the process, we tend to ignore credibility in preference to disposition. This is one of the reasons for our getting biased. If we learn to dispel bias, our judgment can be more objective. Ultimately, it is essential that we should trust only those who are trustworthy and not the ones who display obedience only to play havoc in the long run.

Some persons are plain and are misunderstood for insubordination. Honesty of purpose alone needs being recognized, as other ‘decorated’ dispositions in words or in action are often designs of scheme in concealing the intent.

Despite one’s earnest desire to stay free of bias, a certain pattern of grooming in early life slowly conditions the mind of the child to ‘treat’ persons of a ‘description’ with unfounded suspicion. So, bias can be a product from ‘planted opinion’ than from any authentic judgment.

Bias is a weapon, capable of incalculable damage.

. Like several wrong habits, bias does inflict a lethal wound to the very holder.      . God should guide us off bias. 

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