Ethical Perspective On Discrimination

Unintentional discrimination stemmed from the implied or implicit prejudice while intentional discrimination is based on explicit bias which clearly mentions about stating certain characteristics like race, religion or gender. Known as Senate Bill 14, the state’s voter-identification law entails voters who show up at the polls to classify themselves with one of five forms of ID, including a driver’s license or a United States passport. Those missing one of the five types of documentation must get an election identification certificate, a government-issued card comparable to a driver’s license. This falls under the ambit of unintentional discrimination since the voter identification has been aimed to curb the fraud committed by the illegal immigrants and thus will be useful in preserving the rights of the legal citizens and sanctity of democracy. Although some minorities feel discriminated by this bill, such as Hispanics because in certain areas they are not eligible to get an identity proof like driver’s license etc. so they feel the bill will directly eliminate them from participating in the voting. The bill is proposed with an intention to achieve a larger goal for the entire American society and hence should not be viewed as discriminatory and any discrimination implied