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Marty K Posted Feb 21, 2009 3:18 PM
There's a tendency, conspicuous on this thread, to generalize about certain groups of people, to pigeonhole them into neat little categories, conveniently filed for future reference. We do it with occupations, with ages, with races, with age groups, ad nauseum. It's temptingly easy to sort things out this way, but the complexities of human nature don't allow for such simplicitly. Every walk of life has its share of misfits and screwballs; I challenge anybody to show me one that doesn't. So before you pick up that broad brush and dip it in either the white paint or the black, consider that most of us dwell in that vast gray area, between the two extremes. We cry out for justice, but in the end, what we really hope for is leniency. |
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