Quote Originally Posted by Singu View Post
At least we don't say that the total numbers of types of dogs is X, and no more. Besides you can't compare humans to things like animals and plants, they're totally different. Plants and animals are fixed and only have fixed behavior, while humans don't.

See, people often deride "emotional thinking" for making hasty generalizations, while they make hasty generalizations by separating into thinking and feeling categories.

The point is that they're both wrong.

Anyway you missed the point of that article, the point is that it benefits the stereotyper, but it costs the stereotyped.
My point is that it's impossible not to stereotype. Just because people care and spiders don't doesn't mean you don't use the same process if you're categorizing both.