Judgment

Old French jugement — legal decision. From Latin judicare — to judge, from jus (law, right) + dicere (to say). Originally strictly legal — a formal pronouncement — before expanding to mean any evaluative opinion.

'Don't judge' became a cultural injunction in the late 20th century — a democratizing of moral authority that also evacuated the concept of content. The religious sense (Last Judgment, divine reckoning) persists alongside the casual social sense.