06-27-2013, 11:19 AM
(06-27-2013, 08:41 AM)HellJacket Wrote: Do you agree or disagree that whenever a group is singled out for a specific favor, that qualifies as discrimination? For instance, would you agree that if I decided to give $1 to every brown-eyed woman that is between the ages of 27-29, but I do not give $1 to anyone outside that group, I am discriminating against everyone outside that group?
I like the idea, for I'm a brown-eyed woman and I can pretend to be between 27 and 29 .
OK, let's try to define "discrimination", we obviously have different opinions. You are not discriminated, because you're not allowed to go to the girl's bathroom and your sister is. A child is not discriminated because it has to go to bed early and the parents stay up. A window washer is not discriminated because he earns less than a surgeon. A beggar on the street is not discriminated, because you gave a dollar to the street musician next to him but not him. First: with your money, you can do whatever you want. If you want to give it to somebody, you likely decide for yourself who needs it the most, who do you like best, who will spend it the way you want.
A government should think of the benefit for the whole community, and tax money is spent for infrastructure, science, education and (yes!) families. Someone without children simply doesn't need exercise books, scooters, children's clothing, diapers and another thousand things. People are different and they have different needs, that's not discrimination in my eyes.
For me, discrimination is to deny people what they need - for absurd reasons like race, sex, the religion they belong to and so on, while the others get it. I admit it's a question of definition, what is absurd and what is reasonable, different societies may have different answers. But to give tax money to those who grow the community's future, for me it's pure logic. What comparable things do "non-breeders" do to support the society?