One morning I over-slept, and so had to run to work without any breakfast, and without taking any lunch with me. Come lunch time I was very hungry. In order to get something to eat, I would have to walk through downtown Greensboro NC, where I was working then. Now at that time downtown Greensboro was full of panhandlers, and I’m a real sucker for panhandlers. But I only had 5 dollars in my pocket, and I knew that if I ran into the usual number of panhandlers, and tried to be generous to all, I would get nothing to eat myself.
So, one panhandler got a dollar, and the rest I lied too and told them I had no money.
On what basis did I prefer one panhandler over another?
My choice was completely arbitrary ! It amounted to, "ennie , meenie, minnie mooh ".
My point is ? the fact is we are obliged to practice a thousand little discriminations every day, and usually using quite arbitrary criteria.
I just love it when folks draw the distinction , " your discrimination is evil, because it involves judging one using criteria that the individual has no control over. But my discrimination is ok, even positive, because it is based in judging one only for actions and behavior. "
Lately I have been having a good laugh over that one, because now Homosexuals are claiming they were born that way, so now they are using this same argument against the same people who used it,
The people who used that logic / defense should have seen that one coming.
I’m a monarchist, I believe in the divine right of kings, I believe that, in general, it is NOT my, your, or our , place to say. I think a WHOLE LOT of things should NOT be subject to ANY vote. So I’m the biggest bigot here.
You folks shouldn’t sweat it, you have it easy.
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