Which are our prejudices?

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A prejudice is an idea we assume as real without thinking of reasons to do it.

For example, many of us think slavery is wrong. But we never thought exactly of why. We only grew with such prejudice. We all have prejudices, from the most simple idea to complex opinions. After studying carefully our prejudices (like the slavery one), we can both find out that they are false or true. What makes an idea a prejudice isn't if it is false or true, but the fact that we never thought critically on the reasons for us to defend it.

In the Pogopedia page about Philosophy

Which are the prejudices that exist? From the most simple and basic one to the most complex ones. I propose we try to find out!

So basically post all of the prejudices you know of, even if they are right or wrong. This could almost be a forum game!
If you think a prejudice is worth discussing, then I propose you create a topic in the Debate Club.

With this I hope we can make people think! If we start wondering which are our prejudices, we can start to figure out which are right and which are wrong!

So, who is willing to start?

[RabbitWho]

My ones:

Prejudice against

people who don't like homosexuals
People who don't like homosexuality
people who don't like one race or ethnicity or social class
people who are violent towards other people
people who are violent towards animals
people who think that there is nothing wrong with animal cruelty or that animals don't have feelings
loud children



We were talking about this here i think:

pogotribe.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=debateclub&action=display&thread=966


Asking if prejudice can be good. (I know you know ptmb, I'm sharing )

[mooxim]

Going by the example in the first quote of slavery being wrong, I'm going to try to list a few similar ideas that I'm not suggesting are wrong but simply that a lot of people take them for granted without particularly questioning them.

I have actually questioned most of these.

Killing is fundamentally wrong.
Mass death is a bad thing.
Violence is not the answer.
Freedom is worth dying and killing for.
Human beings should have more rights than other animals.
People should be allowed to have as many children as they want.

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Apr 9, 2010 16:00:26 GMT -5 mooxim said:

Killing is fundamentally wrong.
Mass death is a bad thing.
Violence is not the answer.
Freedom is worth dying and killing for.
Human beings should have more rights than other animals.
People should be allowed to have as many children as they want.

Amazing, those are great prejudices (in therms that they are really prejudices, not that they are good or bad )! I had never though of some of them.

RabitWho, I got inspired to do this thread on that discussion you linked to. Everybody should check it out.

Let me see if I can contribute with some prejudices...

• Our "consciousness" is the real path to ethical truth
  
• What is true to me may not be true to you (I think there is already a topic about this one on the debate club)
  
• Human life is sacred
  
• Being ethical is the right thing to do

Once again, just because they are prejudices doesn't mean they are necessarily wrong, they may or may not be. Oh, and I am not saying everybody has these prejudices, I say there are people who have them.

And some administrator had a prejudice and assumed this wasn't a project. ;D I actually had the idea of it being some sort of project, possibly with a wiki page on the future, but I wanted to start in a simple way. Anyway, in this forum it probably has more eyes in it, so I don't mind.

[mooxim]

Apr 11, 2010 5:53:17 GMT -5 @ptmb said:

Amazing, those are great prejudices

thanks.