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Originally Posted by TroyF
We can play this game all night. What if TM were a raptor?
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If I had any computer programming skills, I'd set up that website with drop-down menus where one could simulate this encounter between any combination of race/gender/occupations. We could have a definitive answer to the question - what would have happened if Zimmerman was an elderly French pastry chef, and Martin was a jittery eskimo firefighter.
Like you, I am completely bewildered as to the relevance of any of the hypothetical race and gender reversal experiments. Is the idea that if there's any one combination of races or genders that would result in someone going to prison, than they should all go to prison? If that's the case, than I think we should definitely put hypothetical black guy or hypothetical jewish guy on trial, perhaps with a hypothetical jury, to see if they're convicted. It wouldn't seem fair to send Zimmerman to prison just based on speculation that isn't tested by a hypothetical trial.