Theos-Talk Archives (June 2000 Message tt00077)

MorganArts@aol.com wrote:
> Thank you for clarifying the First Proposition of the Fundamentals.  

	Actually, I didn't; I merely corrected a typo on your part. 

> However, I do think that a blanket statement about a group of
> people albeit prefaced with "probably" is not a way to the path of 
> truth. 

	Note that one can speak in generalities about a group; it is when one
talks about the individuals that we cannot necessarily associate the
characteristics of the group to the individual. For example, I would
dare say that you are against racial profiling, but you also probably
make sure your car doors are locked when going through a high-crime
minority neighborhood (on the other hand, if you are going though a
middle or upper-class minority neighborhood, you probably don't). It is
not that you think that any given individual may try to commit a crime
against you; you just know that there is a higher probability that
SOMEBODY is going to do something. This is not to say that Leon's
assessment was correct, it is to say that it is not necessarily
violating the principle of Universal Brotherhood.

	Bart Lidofsky

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