User blog comment:Warmachine375/Why are the Faunus discriminated?/@comment-23799069-20150603090741/@comment-4010415-20150604152505

Live is right. It's basic human instinct to be wary of something that is different because fearing something new and different kept us alive for centuries. Even though that instinct is now obsolete, we still have it because instinct is hard to get rid of.

This leads to humans discriminating against each other for being different, even over things that we cannot control, such as skin color, deformity, or disability. Yes, I said disability. Children have a habit of bullying kids with certain disabilities because they're weird and different. No other reason. Kids are taught to be tolerant of certain more well-known disabilities such as deafness, blindness, and anything that puts a kid in a wheelchair, but anything else tends to get discriminated against.

Discrimination is absolutely irrational, and that's the way it always has been. "You're weird and different from me, therefore I don't like you and believe I'm better than you."