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Expanding on your point, there is a new idea that making generalizations is evil. As it can be, certainly, "all those gays are compulsive deviates" when it's only few obnoxious gays who seek to reinforce that impression while the rest of us are nothing like that.

But: generalization is the most powerful tool we have for making sense of the world. If an animals has fur, bears live young, and feeds them nutritious fluid from glands on its torso it's probably a mammal.

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