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Discrimination is a social sin
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Discrimination is immoral Even discrimination is unavoidable, it does not mean that it cannot be minimized	(co) What is unavoidable cannot be blamed morally Discrimination does not exist Discrimination is unavoidable Discrimination within a certain degree can have positive effect on the society, such as motivating competition and improvement

Discrimination is immoral
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(co) Distinction without reason is not moral Discrimination is irrational

(co) Distinction without reason is not moral
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	but most discriminators would give reasons , however baseless these may be

Discrimination is irrational
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Social discrimination makes classification of people on the basis of class or category without regard to individuals' merit Discrimination in a social sense means distinguishing people based on prejudice resulting in unfair treatment of people	We don't have the capacity to treat everyone we come into contact with as a whole individual so we have to group and stereotype people based on myths, experience

Discrimination does not exist
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There exists no objective standard to assess whether discrimination really happens

There exists no objective standard to assess whether discrimination really happens
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Discrimination is just a matter of interpretation and free association	Discrimination can be assessed with respect to the particular historical and cultural background people share

Discrimination is just a matter of interpretation and free association
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Whether a word, a phase, a gesture is discriminatory or not depends solely on the personal interpretation of the people involved

Discrimination is unavoidable
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Human beings have different perspectives and preferences	Even human beings have different valuation, it does not mean that they have to express it in a discriminatory way

Human beings have different perspectives and preferences
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Human valuates

Discrimination within a certain degree can have positive effect on the society, such as motivating competition and improvement
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	This is not "discrimination"

This is not "discrimination"
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Social discrimination is based on prejudiced judgment of irrelevant properties of group of people, not their ability