On 4/22/2012 11:56 AM, Dutch wrote:
> "Immortalist" > wrote
>> On Apr 21, 12:04 pm, George Plimpton > wrote:
>
>>> If it's a natural human tendency, then why would it need moral
>>> justification?
>>
>> In court cases involving pathological groupishness like racial
>> discrimination and numerous other nasty and beastly human behaviors?
>
> Discrimination is not wrong by default, that is a modern misconception.

To discriminate merely means to choose. A discriminating customer is
one who is knowledgeable about the products or services and does not
accept those that are inadequate to his needs.

There is one aspect of human life in which the overwhelming majority of
people discriminate on the basis of race. No laws have ever been passed
to prohibit it, and few say that people ought not do it. Can you (or
anyone) guess what it is? This same aspect of human life typically
involves another form of discrimination along a different dimension,
although literally no one says it ought not occur.