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"Don't judge a book by its cover." is a bad idiom, because bookcovers are desinged to represent the content of the book. (self.showerthoughts)
submitted 1 year ago by Chriseindt to c/showerthoughts
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[–] scarabic 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sounds like that uses a loaded connotation of the word discriminate. That word really just means to differentiate things from each other or discern distinct things.

I think a better way to say it would be: “judge, but don’t pre-judge.”

As long as you’re actually judging evidence in front of you, great. If you’re making shortcuts to judgments using superficial cues, that’s where you run into trouble.

[–] hiramfromthechi 1 points 1 year ago

That's a good way of putting it.