"He that lie down with dogs shall rise up with fleas"~ Benjamin Franklin

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"Show me your friends and I'll tell you who you are" is another quote that basically condemns a person to being guilty by association. While it cannot be denied that we are influence by the people around us, does that mean human failings such as dishonesty or lack of empathy is contagious? Consider the recent uproar on child separation at the US-Mexican border. Was the owner of the restaurant right in refusing to serve Sarah Sanders and asking her to leave simply because she works for Trump? How about the double standard applied by police officers stopping and searching vechicles base on racial profiling? If you feel strongly that discrimination and stereotyping were involve in the two questions I ask, then maybe President Donald Trump should be given the benefit of the doubt when he commented on white supremacists and neo-nazis in the Charlotteville incident that there were also "some very fine people on both sides"? Your thoughts on grouping people base on the company they keep and using the standard of the title quote to draw conclusions about their character. Image: flickr (Creative Commons)~Donkey Hotey