Letters to the Editor
Is There Another Way?
For any one demographic group of people we may consider, it is entirely normal to harbor preconceived ideas and suppositions about them. Not fair and just, but normal.
We cannot possibly know all the members of any one demographic group of people, so we draw conclusions about the entire group based on those members of the group we observe, and those members of the group with whom we have personal dealings. We assume their actions and behaviors are derived from a common cultural group ethos. Group social cohesion depends upon a common unwritten code of behavior (lex non scripta), and politically incorrect upstream swimmers sooner or later wind up being social outcasts from the group. So it should come as no surprise when we judge the many on the basis of only a few.
Lawrence K. Marsh
Gaithersburg, Maryland
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