Justice Kirby's Papers - Genetic Testing and Social management of Threats of discrimination. Genetic Testing and Social management of Threats of discrimination. At the heart of adverse discrimination lies difference.
Many people only feel comfortable with others who appear exactly the same as themselves.
Inject an element of differentiation and such people may feel entitled to act in prejudicial and even cruel ways. Sometimes making distinctions may be justified. A person with a highly contagious disease may need to be isolated for the protection of society and the proper treatment of the individual. But the history of the century now drawing to its close has been one of irrational and unwarranted discrimination. It is still going on.