martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You may be 70 and capable to do a job which required me to invest 2 > years into you, but the chance of you waking up dead is far higher > than of a 30-year-old. Plain fact, no discrimination.
More accurately: it *is* discrimination (because people are being selected based on some criterion), but what is at issue is whether it is *unfair* discrimination. > Discrimination is a trendy word which bites, because it's been > hammered upon us by the media and politicians to the point of no > return, has completely lost its meaning, and has managed to cause > serious damage to such things as tolerance and sensible judgement. Indeed; discrimination is essential to getting anything done at all. The trick is to avoid unfair discrimination. > Please don't succomb to this trend. It blurs your vision and > prevents you from identifying and properly reacting to real > instances of discrimination. Using the correct phrase “unfair discrimination” helps communicate more directly what is at issue. -- \ “I am amazed, O Wall, that you have not collapsed and fallen, | `\ since you must bear the tedious stupidities of so many | _o__) scrawlers.” —anonymous graffiti, Pompeii, 79 | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
