On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 04:02:35 +0200, Lasse Karlsson wrote: > Yes, maybe you, and I, and a whole lot of us photographers in fact > and in a way are discriminating against certain people whom we > decide not to shoot, because of personal preferences.
Humans discriminate. It's what they do. It's how they're built. It's the result of God's choice or millions of years of evolution, depending on your belief system. Humans discriminate between threat and not threat. Beautiful and not beautiful. Interesting and not interesting. Food and not food. The world presents more information than our sensory equipment, or our so-called intellect, can absorb. Not to discriminate is, or quickly becomes, insanity. Really. Ask a mental health professional what happens when one attempts, as in some types of mental illness, not to filter incoming sensory data at all. Get used to it. It's the inverse of Tourette's Syndrome. Yes, this discussion revolves around a "higher" form of discrimination. But it's still discrimination. It's like a discussion a couple of years ago about what is truth. A group of humans can't even adequately define it. It has meaning only within oneself. Right or wrong, it is. TTYL, DougF KG4LMZ
