The word “discrimination” has been understood in too much of a negative way lately. To discriminate is to make a judgment or distinction between two or more things at hand. We do this everyday. We discriminate when we decide what we want to eat for dinner.
Discrimination is only wrong if it is prejudicial in a harmful way.
I think the fact that “discrimination” tends to be abused as a word, and sometimes even misused so as to defend certain agendas, is demonstrated in the following:
Many times discrimination based off of some of these factors can be very harmful, while other times there are extremely good reasons for discriminating, even on some of the factor listed above. For example, a person who suffers from a physical disability would obviously not qualify for most athletic competitions (except for something like the special Olympics).
I guess my point is is that stating that we shouldn’t discriminate against various things is a way to arouse convergent thinking, getting everyone on the same page and agreeing in matters in which they might not agree to otherwise if all of the consequences (explicit and implicit) of that convergent thinking were lad out otherwise. It can be a clever move by a group, say for example, gays, who would make themselves look like martyrs if people are opposed to what they do (sodomy) after they have stealthily shifted everyone’s approach to issues due to “discrimination”.
On the other hand, people should not mistreat gays (active homosexuals) or celibate homosexuals.
