Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Discrimination
I think discrimination is something that will be very difficult to get rid of. If you think about it, everyone has to discriminate in the choices they make everyday. To discriminate means to show partiality or prejudice towards something. For example, when we choose our friends, we are being discriminatory. When an insurance company refuses to cover the treatment costs of a pre-existing illness, they are being discriminatory. When a bank declines to give a loan to someone with bad credit, they are being discriminatory. When a mother decides to leave her son out of her will because she is afraid he'd use the money for drugs, she is being discriminatory. What I am trying to say is that we can't avoid discrimination entirely. I believe we should try to get rid of racial, cultural and religious discrimination where it exists. It is natural for people to have their own opinions on various things. That is what makes people unique. It seems like there are too many people who are offended easily and who are too quick to assume they are being discriminated against. Sometimes life just isn't fair. The challenge is to make the most of life and not to focus on the injustices. If you focus on them too much, you will find them all around you.
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Good points. I agree that when we are choosing our friends that we are discriminating against others and all of the following examples following it. I also think that we should TRY and get rid of racial, cultural and religious discrimination where it exists. But how?! There are people who take discrimination to the extreme and i don't think it is fair but honestly how could it ever be changed? It is pointed out that it is human for us to have our opinions and it is what makes us unique but there is a line that some people cross and i think that we see and agree on where that line is.
You are certainly right when you say that EVERYONE descriminates. If we didn't, I don't think we would be able to make decisions. But what I would expand on is HOW we descriminate. Being able to use judgment can be helpful in understanding life, but it can also lead us to make narrow conclusions about things as well.
I can see your point on how everyone is a bit hypersensitive when it comes to descrimination, but I also think that this country is highly judgmental. Not just as it pertains to race, ethnicity etc, but just on the clothes we ware and the car we drive..it's crazy right?
Read my response, maybe you can better understand where I'm coming from.
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