In my defense i am NOT a bible belt Christian, and I am not the most morally defensable person in the world. Simply recognise the psychologically based reasoning i present.
While you want me to not get so caught up by apperances simple fact is that we are all are. Dont believe me, lets change the context. Are you not more willing to help an attractive person than an ugly one? Think about that cute guy/girl that comes and asks for help from you vs. the fugly alternative. It is a well proven fact that good looking people dont get in as much trouble with the law and when they do their prison sentences are considerably shorter.
Look piercing on your ears and percings on places like your nose, lips, tongue, cheeks, chin deliver two completely different signals. And I, along with most of society, do not find it unreasonable to associate unusual piercings with a choice of alternative lifestyle. Again an extrapolation but one made after much carful observation: People who chose wildly alternative methods of bodily presentation have skeletons in the closet that have driven them to subscribe to a counterculture, all an effort to satiate the basic human need to feel belonging.
My point was that our social programing is unescapable, and it is nothing short of a bombastic claim to state otherwise. We are as much our preconditions as we are our higher mental capacities, and to deny the existance of our judgmental nature is crazy. So fine, fool yourself into thinking that you're the next Jesus, the second (supposed) individual in all of history to be completely unbiased.
However i am a reasonable man, i stick to my assesments because they have served me well in the past if you have some verifiable information of any consequence you wish to impart...then please, preach on.