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Nowadays, people talk about _possible_ discrimination like it's _real_ discrimination and want it be punished. This should not be right. Possible wrongdoing is
by echaozh 10y ago
Nowadays, people talk about _possible_ discrimination like it's _real_ discrimination and want it be punished. This should not be right. Possible wrongdoing is not real wrongdoing, and you cannot have people punished for it, and should not pass laws to prevent it.
I'm not American so I don't know a lot. With what I've heard, political correctness is more about possible discrimination.
There is an old Chinese story. A Chinese emperor once demanded all brewing tools to be confiscated because he didn't want people to drink when there was an ongoing war. One day when he was walking with one of his advisers, the adviser asked him to arrest a man as a rapist. "How do you know, it's a total stranger," the emperor asked. "He got the tools to rape," answered the adviser. The emperor laughed and revoked the absurd rule.