From the lesson "A picture paints a thousand words", I have learnt to not judge a book by its cover. Our class was shown two pictures of two beggars and choose to help one of them. The first picture shows a man holding a board begging for money while the second picture shows a woman carrying a baby and asking for money from another man. Most of us chose to help the woman with the baby as when we saw the baby, we empathize her more than the man. However, the truth was that the man only need a little more money to get back to his feet while the woman was part of a cheating syndicate.
This made me realize that judging a person by his or her exterior is quite similar to choosing an apple by its surface. When buying apples, people often pick beautiful one as their first choice. However, some apples look pretty outside but rotten inside.
Hence it is unfair and one-sided to judging people by their exteriors because their exteriors might be misleading.
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