[Typesbad]

For a "brainy nerd", your post includes an amazing array of absurd assertions. Feeling a little lazy, I'll simply the easiest:

"Moreover, so-called prejudices are often distinctions that help preserve a way of life. It is not possible or desirable to remove all prejudice."

according to Websters:

prejudice - \Prej"u*dice\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Prejudiced; p. pr. & vb. n. Prejudicing.] [Cf. F. pr['e]judicier. See Prejudice, n.] 1. To cause to have prejudice; to prepossess with ; to bias the mind of, by hasty and incorrect notions; to give an unreasonable bent to, as to one side or the other of a cause; as, to prejudice a critic or a juryman.

Suffer not any beloved study to prejudice your mind so far as to despise all other learning. --I. Watts

2. To obstruct or injure by prejudices, or by previous bias of the mind; hence, generally, to hurt; to damage; to injure; to impair; as, to prejudice a good cause.

So NutCrackerboy: Do you see anything worthy here? By definition: "opinions formed without due knowledge or examination" ...prejudice is an act born of ignorance. You are saying that such ignorance is essential in "preserving a way of life".

The obvious question is: What or whose way of life should be preserved in this manner? Certainly not the one of those who are the targets of such prejudice.

Not your problem, I guess.

[NutCrackerBoy]

I wonder why you listed the definitions of prejudice as a verb when I was using it as a noun.

Merriam Webster Online lists the following: prejudice 2 a (1) : preconceived judgment or opinion.

It is not possible to function as a human being without having some preconceived judgments or opinions. Or do you think every single belief and action of yours has been thought through beforehand?

When you meet people you pre-judge them in a number of ways.