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by ZoFreX 5434 days ago
"There's probably a reason for it" is a vile and disgusting justification for discrimination that is sadly heard quite frequently.
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It's also a perfectly reasonable justification for making (correct!) decisions in many, many situations.
My father used a variant of it to justify the idea of invading Iraq (a couple of years prior to us actually doing it): "Where there's smoke, there's fire."