PHIL 120W Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Racial Profiling, If And Only If, Contractualism

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 120W
• Professor: Sam Black

Document Summary

Textbook: contemporary debates in applied ethics, cohen and wellman (eds. ) (wiley. Racial profiling by the state is wrong, Racial profiling can be justified whenever it says that an innocent person has a rotten character. Key arg: guilty people do not have the right, non-insulting generalizations are allowed to reject being questioned. Accurate profiling makes police (ie. advertisement to target group) effort more effective and less costly. No profiling done by agents: the history is what makes profiling. Related: racial profiling: differential treatment between individuals due to stereotypes.