>Kirt:In a message dated 97-08-10 20:24:35 EDT, [log in to unmask] writes: ><< I know prejudice when I hear it: > admit it, you think that non-vegans are simply not as good as vegans. > Instead of skin color or religion or sex or age or occupation or whatever, > you judge someone according to their _lunch_. (!) >Bob: >Kirt, I was wildly cheering your brilliant piece, 'til this minor (IMO) error >slipped in. Food intake belief, religion, philosophy, occupation, etc. don't >equate with skin color, sex or age. The former involve free choice & the >latter, the luck of the draw, with the possible modern idea of sex as a >medical preference. I suspect that you're quite aware of that distinction & >its implication, yes? :-) I would call religion a choice for most adults but you're right on about the others. Even so, I don't think prejudice is necessarily limited to charcteristics which are due to the luck of the draw. Is it justified against yuppies, bums, politicians, dentists, magneticists, the nipple-pierced, the tie-wearing, or the users of certain computer platforms? To pre-judge folks based on lunch seems the silliest of all, but I imagine the same folks would judge me for a leather jacket so who knows, eh? My weakness, though, is cars. When I see someone in an obnoxiously expensive car I just want to shoot them on the spot regardless ;) I don't, but I think about it, you know ;) ;) Sometimes I'm even suicidal considering our 92 Prism... Cheers, Kirt