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You can call me an uptight-politically-correct-asshole if you'd like but this is what I believe and what is a man if not the sum of his moral convcitions?
We can choose to look at the concept of race as it is today: a seemingly irrefutable fact because it's so widely believed and makes comes off as so self-evident - or we can take a realistic look at ourselves, the role we play in this world, and exactly how much the concept of race has done for us as a species.
I don't scold myself everytime I classify someone into whatever group they'd go in to but I do take a moment to aknowledge the fact that the concept of race is completely groundless and by writing someone off by their race I learn nothing worthy of any value about the person.
What starts off as a thought in my mind can easily become the words of another person and the fuel and justification behind another's hatred. It's easy to assume that there's no harm in it all but if you take a look at all the people whom you have infleunce over and exactly how large a role you play in this world you'll realize that something larger than you'd ever imagine can grow from something you'd assume to be so small.
None of us can help but to classify people into certain groups but the classification defeats it's own purpose. You attempt to come to a useful conclusion about one person in particular and all you get in return are nothing but impersonal, preconcieved notions that give you nothing useful to go on.
....I could go on for pages but it'd be just as useless as the topic I'm discussing.
To be on-topic for once, we can accept our knee-jerk reactions as involuntary is an option but it certainly isn't a realistic option. I can understand how in a world of "mass media mind control" and constant psychic wars it seems impossible to change how you think but it's possible and to do anything less than try only perpetuates the problem.
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"Porn is a zoo of exotic animals that becomes boring upon ownership." -Nersesian
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