[Jewelry making - Article 00407] - Re: [Orchid] Unethical dealers

[FrodoGem]

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>       I'd much rather prefer to know the name of the dealer/company
>     than their country of origin...an unethical dealer can be of any
>     race. 

    I commend you on your polite and concise response to what I am sure
    was an oversight by the person that wrote the e-mail about unethical
    dealers.  I believe that there is a lesson here regarding something
    I feel very strongly about: 

    Ethnicity is often an outstanding feature about people that offers
    an easy way to describe them.  However, human nature is to
    generalize...without generalization, we could not have inductive
    reasoning.  The pitfall is that when we apply this quite basic human
    thinking process in some negative way to humans, it is called
    prejudice. 

    While a simple description is innocent enough, we need to exercise
    caution not to use race or country of origin as a shortcut when
    describing undesirable traits.  While most of us are above letting
    such a description fester into prejudice, there are some that lack
    the intellegence to judge humans as individuals.  Feeding that fire
    is not good for any of us. 

Howard Woods
In Eagle Idaho
Awaiting another beautiful sunrise.




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