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When is racial profiling justified?

Different statistics indicate that one's safety is jeopardized more by certain demographic groups than others. At what point should one put one's safety take precedence over the risk of being discriminatory?
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tynamite
tynamite's avatar When we talk about racial profiling as in discrimination, such as black people being stopped and searched more often, that is discrimination, and we clearly know that that is wrong. I don't have to get into much detail about it.

Another side of racial profiling is not discrimination, but by having stereotypes. Stereotypes help us understand the confusing world around us, and feel safer in it. Everyone has prejudices of people. and if they say they don't, they are lying. For example, if you see a parent do something inappropiate on the street, you might judge them for being a bad parent, though you have only seen them for seconds. Taking away the safety and discrimination topic from this question, and I say that stereotypes that we have of people are justified. We can't not have stereotypes of people. In counselling, counsellers are taught to keep people's identity profiles into account, such as their race, colour, sexuality etc. If we never kept those things in mind as we spoke to people, or tried to help and understand people, that would be foolish.
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