The context for this convo seems missing, not sure what happened…. Anyway, this is generally what I’d say about generalizations:

Well, some people seem to be of the mind that generalizations are always bad, as in morally wrong.

And generalizations, based on evidence, are a recognition of a pattern. Depending on the generalization, it can be potentially very useful.

Like brightly colored animals aren’t safe to eat. That’s a good (more accurate than not) and useful generalization.

It depends on the amount and quality of evidence used in the creation of the generalization, and probably the intelligence of the generalizer.

Though I don’t recall the point I was trying to Make.