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I wanted to see exactly what your position is.
Ok. But if there is evidence to support the notion, then why would some amount of discrimination NOT be justifiable, at least at a personal level? If the differences are indeed there, it would appear that one would be merely dealing with reality as it exists. Don't you think to do otherwise would be unnatural?
several reasons come to mind and I am sure there are others:
1 - Racial discrimination unfairly targets a race making individuals in that race recipients of treatment that they may not deserve having done nothing to deserve it.
2 - it establishes that we will not treat individuals as individuals on their own merit or actions or record but on perceived qualities of a race which may or may not apply to them and may be irrelevant tot he treatment given to them.
3 - it puts us on a very very dangerous path whose end is well established in history through things I have already mentioned such as genocide, slavery and other forms of systematic abuse.