Posted by Russell (157.238.67.185) on July 18, 1999 at 17:50:48:
In Reply to: Re: Suicide?? I need help !! posted by Annie on July 18, 1999 at 16:13:21:
>Begrudging ANYONE a source of information seems >to me a little like the days when "Whites Only" >signs hung over the drinking fountains, because, >after all, "those people" had fountains of their >own.
I can see why people get angry. Your analogy is ignorant and hateful. No one likes to be called a racist. I discriminate every day and I'm proud of it. You know why? Because _I_ understand that to discriminate just means to tell two things or people apart, and a lot of the time that's good. If I run away from someone who points a gun at me but hug a relative, I have discriminated against the person with a gun, but I'm not going to apologize about it.
We all say that racial discrimination is evil because skin color is meaningless, but that doesn't mean that all forms of discrimination are bad. Cluster patients and migraineurs have different medical conditions, so they should be treated differently, i.e. discriminated. Many cluster patients have been physically hurt because doctors have failed to discriminate them from migraine victims. That's why cluster heads are sensitive to this topic.
To me it's about diversity. Learning that we are all different.