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A very odd but interesting tangent seems to have taken place. First, I guess I’ll respond to the opening post. To which there isn’t much to say; like clockwork almost every year a story like this makes headlines. Though this is the first that I can remember where the girl was handcuffed, but in any case it doesn’t seem to me to be such a big deal(but maybe the girl feels otherwise).
Now to the more interesting tangent. It is odd that race should make it’s way here, not in the fact that the subject is only superficially related to the case, but in the way which it arose. An offhand comment is commented on, then the first comment is expounded on(poorly in my, and apparently in other people’s opinion), then it’s defended by people who seem to be trying to make an almost totally different point, or perhaps it is that some people saw the glimmer of an internal argument they had been fermenting in their brains and projected it onto this case.
The argument as it was made in post #20(and apparently worded incorrectly) seemed from my point of view to summarize to this: From my experience(of some black girls) the majority of (all)black girls are (let’s put it nicely) illogical in tense interpersonal situations.
Since this wasn’t what was meant I’ll take it as an honest mistake and leave it at that.
The second argument that seemed to spring independently in my view summarizes to this, and since I think I’m paraphrasing couple of people you’ll have to forgive the liberties I take in generalizing it further than anyone actually posted:
Given the assumption that viable trends of behavior can be helpful in predicting future behavior. When this trend is observed impartially it can be thought of as generally correct in the absence of other contradicting facts insofar as it does not deprive anyone of any legal rights.
In developing the above I’ve sort of grown tired of the point I was trying to make so I’ll just cut to it without much elaboration. The first sentence as worded might as well be a tautology(unfortunately I think I might have learned to much math to be able to spuriously write it as fact),. In any case I included it for posterity and perhaps because it self-servingly makes my point clearer. In itself there appears nothing wrong, logically, with what is in italics above(of course feel free to interject and point out if you think I’ve wrongly worded the argument). However, as I see it, the motivation behind such a line of thinking is best suited for multimillion dollar corporations that deal with consumer trends(or our cave-man ancestors, an evolutionary account as to why this type of thinking might be beneficiary is in my view sophomoric; since I’ve noticed that when one goes down this line of thinking it generally becomes a penchant for wild speculation, and I only skirt the issue in the form of an over-elaborated quip here) and in itself is contrary to the ideals of our laws. Whose spirit(though perhaps not necessarily in practice) do not allow for such overarching judgment. So to me it seems that such a view is practically unnecessary for an individual in this day and age and flies in the face of the politically developed moral fiber of our state.
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