Isn't that a distinction without a difference? If it's acceptable to judge people based on group membership because it aligns with behavior, people will ascribe abhorrent behavior to group membership. "Oh, you're a (insert religious group here)? Those people literally rape children!"
According to the cop who stopped to talk to me after I stuck a couple post-it notes in front of a speed camera lens, even if it can be easily removed, it's still vandalism.
Layoffs will be a regular occurrence. Think you're safe because you have a lot of seniority? My wife was laid off by Chase just a couple weeks before her 20 year anniversary. Funnily enough, they had just switched everyone to thin clients a year or two before.
I will argue that if a problem was solved in the past without violence, it's only because there was nonetheless the threat of violence. Gandhi is the classic example - he's the one everyone remembers, but he wasn't the only leader in the struggle for Indian independence. Those in power generally refuse to negotiate with terrorists, but given the possibility of prolonged bloody conflict, they may choose to negotiate with the nonviolent alternative.
Funny you mention red dye- I think it was banned in the US too many years ago, but sometime in the 90s maybe, it came back. I thought at the time I remembered hearing that an alternative had been found...
I don't know if it's a gift or a curse, but around my house, I'm the only one who can find anything - but it's not because I scan the room and see it, but because at some point in the past, I happened to notice, and I just remember where nearly everything is, whether I want to or not. I guess it's my coping mechanism.
Ugh, one of my right wing Farcebook "friends" recently made a simpleton comment about paying back student loans, and I couldn't resist saying "why stop at college? Defund public schools, if little Timmy can't afford it, send him to the mines" and of course he agreed, the irony was completely lost on him. No, his kids do not go to private school.
Isn't that a distinction without a difference? If it's acceptable to judge people based on group membership because it aligns with behavior, people will ascribe abhorrent behavior to group membership. "Oh, you're a (insert religious group here)? Those people literally rape children!"