Labeling is a such a dangerous trend that is happening more and more these days. We all have seen disturbing examples of this very recently; calling someone ‘Crooked’, ‘Stupid’, ‘Fake’ or worse. Kind of sounds like name calling – doesn’t it? Kind of sounds like bullying? It allows someone to put another person into a neat little box with a neat little label on it, and then it’s just simple to tie a little bow on it and walk away. While this may be easy to do, I don’t really think that anyone can fit into a little box. I think we are so much more complex than that. I think we are better than that little box. And I think it is a lazy way of dealing with complicated issues. I think it is hurtful, harmful, dangerous and disrespectful to label another human being. Labeling can also be a form of discrimination. It assigns a category, a stereotype, a classification to someone, and while that label is attached to a person or group of people there is no need or desire to delve deeper, to get to know that person, or to try to understand an individual. The damage is done in the label. I think that labeling is better left to cans and packages of food.