Difinitions discrimination...............

[elizahorn99]

Moral philosophers have defined discrimination as disadvantageous treatment or consideration. This is a comparative definition. An individual need not be actually harmed in order to be discriminated against. He or she just needs to be treated worse than others for some arbitrary reason. If someone decides to donate to help orphan children, but decides to donate less, say, to black children out of a racist attitude, he or she will be acting in a discriminatory way even if he or she actually benefits the people he discriminates against by donating some money to them.
Based on realistic conflict theory and social identity theory, Rubin and Hew stone have highlighted a distinction between three types of discrimination:


Realistic competition is driven by self-interest and is aimed at obtaining material resources (e.g., food, territory, customers) for the in-group (e.g., favoring an in-group in order to obtain more resources for its members, including the self).
Social competition is driven by the need for self-esteem and is aimed at achieving a positive social status for the in-group relative to comparable out-groups (e.g., favoring an in-group in order to make it better than an out-group).
Consensual discrimination is driven by the need for accuracy reflects stable and legitimate inter group status hierarchies (e.g., favoring a high status in-group because it is high status).

The United Nations trance on discrimination includes a statement that "Discriminatory behaviors take many forms, but they all involve some form of exclusion or rejection

[TheGodlessUtopian]

Thread moved to Discrimination. :)

[Landsharks eat metal]

This kind of seems like a bot of some sort... or something like that.

[TheGodlessUtopian]

This kind of seems like a bot of some sort... or something like that.

I thought so as well but I have a hard time recognizing things as such sometimes when it seems 'in place.' Perhaps post the link to its profile in the alert thread and let the Admins take care of it?

[Blake's Baby]

Odd. My post disappeared.

The link to the hotel thing is odd, though they don't seem to be a bot as they came back and editted their post. Not sure what they think they're doing though.

[Landsharks eat metal]

Not sure exactly what it is, but this user does not belong here. This post appears word-for-word on many other sites, the name is very reminiscent of the many bots I've seen and reported, and the link to the hotel thing is more than odd. Advertising does not belong here. I'm not sure about the post editing thing, but this user, whether it is human or not, is only here for the advertising and not to make original, insightful posts.