A further poll about prejudice and discrimination

[sexdrugsmoney]

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What if you were given some kind of a tip and knew for a fact that one of the men was a suicide bomber intent on hijacking the airplane.

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Where's the option to not get on the plane?

[theben]

to some degree, everybody is prejudiced even if they refuse to admit it

[Darryl_P]

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to some degree, everybody is prejudiced even if they refuse to admit it

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True...some people are so prejudiced as to think races are equal despite seeing compelling evidence to the contrary.

[NLSoldier]

If you cant see that the odds are clearly in favor of the middle eastern guy being the terrorist than you are an idiot.

[xniNja]

Here's a question:

If we are at war with Japan, which is scarier, a white surfer, or a Japanese male? If we are at war with Russia, which is scarier, a white surfer, or a Russian male? Repeat with any nation with a particular ethnic population and you realize that the question isn't so significant and not really at all about discrimination.

[SmileyEH]

In the first case it makes no difference to me. If the chance of the middle eastern guy being a terrorist is 1 in 100k, and the surfer dude at 1 in 1mil I really could care less. But if we know 1 is actually a terrorist than we are an 10:1 favorite for dying in a terrorist attack if we get on the middle eastern guy's plane, so I'd get on the surfer dude's plane.

-SmileyEH