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Discrimination is essentially the acceptance or rejection of a person based on some quality or characteristic that person possesses. Now obviously all discrimination cannot be bad.
Hangdawg, this is your basic logical error. I say logical out of charity, as really I consider it to be outright rhetorical manipulation.
You are purposefully confusing two concepts based on semantic similarity. Discrimnation is of course the basic process that we use to distinguish one thing for another for whatever prupose.
Racial or sexual discrimination is a specific term for acting maliciously against a person on no bases other than a prejudice against their race or gender.
It is wholly illogical and dishonest to conflate these two concepts and construct this spurious argument from pure sophistry.
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I don't think it is immoral discrimination for an airport security officer to be a little more scrutinizing of a muslim or arab than a five-year old blue-eyed Texan girl. And if I were of mid-eastern descent I would gladly undergo a little profiling to have the knowledge that security is being extra-careful with those who are more likely to bear anti-American sentiment.
Yes it is immoral. It is outright racism and you show this expolicitly: becuase people are NOT being stopped on the basis of the likleihood of their being actual terrorists - they are being stopped JUST FOR BEING MIDDLE EASTERN. So the criteria for dsicrimination is not terrorist risk - it is race. This is outright racism, and apart from being immoral, it is also stupid. Becuase all an intelligent terrorist has to do is make sure your 5-year old blue-eyed texan (very Nordic eh Dawg) is carrying the explosives without her knowledge. This is already a standard practice for international drug smugglers.
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