Re: group based judgment

From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Jul 25 2002 - 15:23:06 MDT


--- "Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" <sentience@pobox.com>
wrote:
> Rafal Smigrodzki wrote:
> > ### Define the way you use the word "profiling"
> and differentiate it from
> > the procedure Lee mentioned - El Al guards letting
> 80 year-old grandmas from
> > Kansas go through without a cavity search.
>
> My grandma isn't 80 yet, but I can personally attest
> that El Al
> disassembles her luggage just like everyone else's,
> even if they let her
> grandson into the screening area to help lift it.

Yup. My 63 year old father went through a rather
rigorous interview with an El Al screener who almost
wouldn't let him fly simply because he lived in
Lebanon, New Hampshire. She commented that it sounded
like a terrible place to live (before he said a word
about it).

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