Why Racial Profiling?
Today, there is much talk about racial profiles because a person’s race may somewhat be involved with terrorist groups and wrongs stuff like that. Checking someone’s driver’s licence extra carefully and asking him a few more questions at an airport about his citizenship is very different than denying him a seat on the plane altogether. Forcing only one racial group to carry special ID cards inposes huge burdens, especially when one knows history and remembers the Nazi treatment of Jews. In general, the larger the burden we are imposing on a group, the less likely we would all impose it on ourselves if the racial roles were reversed. We should also think whether there are things we could be doing to minimize the insults to those who are burdened. Sometimes, that means extending the burdened class beyond the racial minority. An example is, a national ID card for everyone would surely be a better solution than “special” ID cards for some groups. Racial profiling by government may be quite
