"Judge not, and ye shall not be judged"

Luke 6:37 (King James Version)

37 Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven:

I like the "forgive and ye shall be forgiven" piece. Forgiveness and "Grace" is one of the most powerful lessons that Jesus tried to teach us I believe.

However, the "Judge not ..." piece. "Treat others as you wish to be treated" does not work unless we (society - as you rightly spotted) apply the "societal brakes" to people who treat others in a way that they themselves would not like to be treated.

For example, six year old kids sweeping chimneys. The person sending the kids down the chimneys would not like to have to go down those chimneys himself, especially not at the tender age of six. If the person still wants to send the kid down a chimney (to make money) then someone needs to judge the person who is not treating others as he himself wishes to be treated.

Notice that this approach is self-moralistic and self-policing, you don't need a law written down to know that sending the kid down the chimney is bad. You know it's bad, because you wouldn't like to do it yourself when you were a kid, you might die -- or worse!!

I feel that the modern political correctness we are seeing is a result of the asymptotic population explosion we are seeing. If the Earth is some 4.5 billion years old get this: The Earth's population has more than doubled in the last 50 years. Going from some 3 billion to 8 billion (round numbers) - and it's still going strong at this rate. Now look in the phone book, in the yellow pages the largest section will be lawyers.

Working on lawsuits for folks who have been unfairly treated?

Another example: it takes as long today to get across London as it did in 1905. The cars are faster than the horse drawn carriages but there is so much more congestion.

With the worlds population growing as it is it is hardly surprising that Political Correctness abounds -- but I believe (I hope!) that it is a passing fad -- we need to judge eachother occasionally. I want to be judged from time to time so that I know how I am doing in society.

We need to simplify things.