Exceptions to the Rule
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Keeping it short and sweet, Discrimination by Scott Adams throws out a few observations on paradoxes in our society’s of valid and invalid prejudice. For example, though most prejudices aganst traits people can’t control are regulated, “it’s totally legal for an employer to reject a stupid person” who applies for a job. To the hypothetical argument that this is a worthwhile exception, he retorts:
“You might argue that it is in society’s overwhelming best interest to discriminate against stupid people because otherwise the economy would crumble. But I would argue that if idiots couldn’t get jobs for which they are unqualified, your workplace would be empty right now.”
*rim shot*
In general, society does allow prejudices based on traits people have chosen for themselves. The major exception to this rule, religion, only applies to the larger established religions, though there is no basis in logic for this distinction. The accepted religions are in no way less zany than many of the more recent variations.