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Originally Posted by Lasereth
Is being prejudice really a bad thing? Or is it human nature? Coming to a preconceived notion about something is simply your mind making an educated guess based on collected data. If I'm at work and someone calls and says their printer doesn't work I immediately think to myself that a print job is stuck in the printer queue. Am I prejudice towards the printer by thinking that it's queue is jammed? I don't even know how the word prejudice came to be negative. It's basically another word for educated guess based on observation.
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This is a slippery slope and a mismatched comparison. A printer queue isn't a black man walking down the street. Not all prejudice is immoral, but a lot of it is. Consider this prejudice: All women are sluts. Also, an educated guess isn't quite the same as being prejudiced.
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Last edited by Baraka_Guru; 10-26-2007 at 02:40 PM..
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