big_bad_buff said:
Oh wow, you really got me now, I never knew how to spell clothes. This puts a major dent in the truth of my statement.
Now come the little attacks against me because you know I’m right, and my statement is 100% true. Just admit it, It’s ok. No need to turn this into a spelling bee competition.
Nah, I wasn't really trying to "get ya", i was just having fun at your expense.
No, I
do not know that you are right. I'm 100% convinced that you believe your statements to be 100% true, but that doesn't make them true.
Spelling bee competition is over (I suck at it too) but, no, using race to decide who is more likely to be guilty of a crime is not right.
I haven’t seen statistics on this but I would
guess that more men are imprisoned, incarcerated or on parole than women. But that doesn’t make it right to assume that a man is automatically guilty of a crime (going back to the gas station example).
I
have seen statistics on the correlation between education and crime and even though I don’t remember a single digit, I know that more uneducated people are imprisoned, incarcerated or on parole than educated people. That does not make it right to assume that a high-school grad is any more guilty than a Ph.D.
I’m sure profiling is reality every day all over this country, but that
does not make it ok. Again, the fact that everyone lies and cheats is
not excuse to lie and cheat.
There is a not so insignificant document called the The Declaration of Independence. This country is built on the ideas and notions in that document. That document makes me proud of this country. It tells me that there
are principles that should not be violated no matter how "practical" it might be to ignore them.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."