02 outubro 2006

Discrimination or Prejudice

É simples assim:

"In recent weeks, I've offered operational definitions for some of the terms used in the discussion of race. The first was discrimination, which can be broadly defined as the act of choice. When one selects one activity, good or person, of necessity he must discriminate against an alternative activity, good or person.

The second term was prejudice, which can be seen as people making decisions on the basis of incomplete information. We could call it pre-judging or stereotyping. Information is costly. To gain more information requires the sacrifice of resources, be they time, money and perhaps one's life, so people seek information shortcuts.
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Progressistas gostam de dizer "você está simplificando o problema" ou "o mundo é mais complexo que isso" mas nunca consegui ouvir de nenhum deles um argumento verdadeiramente consistente.