A while back, when we ran our article about Jon Huntsman and the obsession with his level of faithfulness, one of our readers left a comment mentioning “intermediate judgment,” as discussed by Elder Dallin H. Oaks in his talk “'Judge Not’ and Judging.” “We must, of course, make judgments every day in the exercise of our moral agency, but we must be careful that our judgments of people are intermediate and not final,” Elder Oaks says of these kinds of judgments. “We all make judgments in choosing our friends, in choosing how we will spend our time and our money, and, of course, in choosing an eternal companion.”
