Thoughts on profiling

[Aragorn]

In today's world, everyone has numerous things to call others. Gay, transvestite, black, transsexual, atheist, handicapped, retarded, the list goes on and on. It's all just another way to make people think they are less then human. I don't think this is right. I have several friends who are gay, but they are awesome people! My big sister was considered 'Mentally Handicapped', but she was the kindest person to grace this earth. What I'm trying to say is that the profiling has to stop. What do you think?

[adamchubby]

Agree totally. Putting people in boxes also means those people who don't fit that box will feel alone or left out. Sucky.

[Cicero]

Everyone is obviously gonna agree with this. But it's never, ever gonna stop. Everyone wants this world to be perfect, without war, judgment, etc. but it's never gonna happen. Humans are built to be greedy, therefore causing war, humans are built to judge. I know I judge people whenever I step foot outside, and you probably do too. Whether its a small thing like, eww that guy has bad breathe (that's judging too) or eww look at that guy, he looks like he's a __________. Heck, you probably judge religious people for judging gays, even when only a small group of religious people judge gays. All humans are greedy, judgmental, and lustful. Sure, you may not judge gays, handicaps, mental retardation (which is the actual term, when people call mental retardation retards, it is actually the right term, because retard means delay from development, and that's what happens to mental illnesses), but you probably judge others, like on sanitary reasons, or hygiene or anything else. So once you become unjudgmental of everything known to man, then you can say people need to stop judging.

[Cognizant]

Of course I think it's bad, but honestly, it isn't going to go away. It's just human nature. Profiling isn't something new. it's human nature to be xenophobic.
Now hear me out, i'm not saying it's good. I'm just saying while yes, it's bad, it's not going to go away.

[Cicero]

Of course I think it's bad, but honestly, it isn't going to go away. It's just human nature. Profiling isn't something new. it's human nature to be xenophobic.
Now hear me out, i'm not saying it's good. I'm just saying while yes, it's bad, it's not going to go away.

Xenophobic is the wrong word :P That means disliking people from other countries :P

[CalicoCat]

This is just another problem that the world has yet to solve.. It's been going on for years and years, people have always thought of new ways of implementing it into our society... Kind of a hard cycle to stop. I mean putting a demeaning label on someone (ie one as grotesque as "retarded") is just plain idiotic but the real injustice happens deeply woven in our society... Example giving an infinite amount of labels to someone "you have adhd, psychosis, manic depressive etc etc without any real thought into the actual human being is incredibly damaging to that person.. More importantly enabling that person to believe all those things thus voluntarily making it apart of them.. When really that person probably doesn't even have whatever cheap solution was given to them. (Im not saying that those people aren't sick or that those conditions do not exist respectfully but half the time people are misdiagnosed and those terms are thrown around and bastardized to such an extent that it no longer holds the respect and dignity it deserves.) Now thats a really deeply disturbed part of our society to do with labels and that really needs to change.. One step at a time though.. Considering there are still people on this planet who call one another "retarded", "tranny" etc

[Human]

Why don't we just consider everyone as 'human beings' :)

[FreeFall]

I'm the odd one out. I never thought I was profiling when I'd be asking about others and used those words, especially if I didn't know their last names or names at all. Like "how's Jake?" "Jake blahblahblah?" "No the one in the wheelchair." I've never been offended when referred to as the atheist, because there's so many girls with my name and similar features in the rather religious area. I'd always thought of them more as descriptive words, but now that I know people can see this as a bad thing I'll be certain to remember full names the best I can and not profile a human (:

[Aves]

The idea of profiling is never going to end. It is human nature, not some sort of fucked up thing that has been pushed on us by the media.