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[QUOTE]Originally posted by First of Two: [QB] [QUOTE] it pains me deeply that we would be so regressive in judging people simply on the basis of religion [/QUOTE] Ah. That explains part of my problem, then. I DO judge people, or at least, form specualtive preliminary opinions about them, based upon religion... whether they have it or not, not which one it happens to be. As I see all faith-based religions (leaving out such as Deism and any others which do not require the active presence of a Deity) as inherently irrational, (something which keeps me from being accepted by the 'far right'), I don't have such moral qualms about discrimination on its basis. I generally clasify people of religion along a scale ranging from 'Beneficial Kook' (people who do good things in the name of Big Juju) to 'Dangerous Psycho Kook,' (Pat Robertson, Bin Laden, Torquemada), with the operative word still being 'Kook.' It's a prejudice. It's unfair. It probably keeps me from grasping the concept of discrimination along those lines as being quite as bad as it really is. Anyway... I'm not saying that the two options I presented ARE the only ones. Certainly they aren't, and I don't find either one really acceptable. I was asking for speculation as to 'What if you had to choose between those two options?' One can, in some cases, find onself forced into a situation where one HAS to choose between only bad choices. (Didn't someone once say that THAT was the essense of Command?) Despite Kirk, there is such a thing as a no-win scenario, where there is no real victory, just different degrees of loss to choose from. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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