I'm saying, even if both things are bad, there's a moral category difference between profiling based on immutable, born characteristics and profiling based on choices (in this case, choice of phone). They are not continuous or connected, but two different categories with a hard break or line between them you have to deliberately cross. That both involve profiling does not connect them, just as shooting a human and shooting a paper target are fundamentally different moral categories which are not made continuous by dint the fact that both involve pulling a trigger.
You seem to think shooting a gun is not stupid in all cases. I think shooting a gun at a person or a paper target are both stupid.
I didn’t bring up the morals, you did.
But besides that point, who says being paranoid, does not have as much genetic roots as having dark skin? I know it’s true for my family, many of us have anxiety and OCD and schizoaffective disorder. And guess what? I’ve owned several pixel phones with graphene OS on them in the past.
Fair enough. But I think we're talking past each other:
> You seem to think shooting a gun is not stupid in all cases. I think shooting a gun at a person or a paper target are both stupid.
In the same way I brought up morals and you did not, you've now brought up "stupid," which I did not.
Seeing your initial comment absent any other context looked to me like a casual moral equivalence that I find reflexively, deeply wrong, for the reasons I gave.
If that wasn't your thinking, I apologize for reading into it.
