<p>This article aims to characterize the judgments about situations that involve hurting and to compare judgments made to generic actors and to idols. Two questionnaires were applied: sociodemographic and the interference of admiration, in 63 adolescents aged between 12 and 18 years. Data analysis included the creation of a coding system based on dialogical reliability, and the execution of descriptive and inferential statistics tests. The results show that admiration did not interfere with the judgments in three of four situations involving hurting and indicated that most adolescents judged the situations with justifications that did not consider concern about hurting others.</p>