Laws cannot stop prejudice

... Laws are no good. To stop prejudice you have first to change people's minds In our society today, we all know about the obvious consequences that come about for certain actions; murder leads to prison time as does theft, perjury and many other crimes. But as it now come to the point where for some crimes these sanctions are simply no longer effective? To be prejudiced is to prejudge an individual or group of people based on insufficient knowledge, irrational feelings, or inaccurate stereotypes. When unfair action or treatment occurs to a person or group due to another's prejudice, that prejudice then becomes discrimination. The past few years are evidence enough that laws against discrimination are in some part ineffective. Many attacks have been carried out on innocent people purely because of prejudice. Cases like that of Anthony Walker have almost become the norms in our society now, in fact last year

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