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To: jazusamo
why is it acceptable for insurance companies to discriminate against smokers and the obese but not homosexuals?

One would think that Walter Williams of all people would at least mention that analogy to the fact that it is not considered acceptable to discriminate on the basis of race, even though black life expectancy is less than that of whites.

The common factor is that like race, whether a person is gay or not does not appear to be under conscious control, whereas smoking and obesity are to a great extent. If we were going to discriminate on the basis of innate factors, then perhaps higher insurance premiums should be charged on the basis of familial health risk factors or DNA analysis.

54 posted on 08/30/2014 11:27:37 PM PDT by wideminded
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To: wideminded

If one assumes that homosexual attraction is innate (which twin studies demonstrate pretty clearly it is not, at least at birth), that still does not mean that engaging in homosexual acts is not a specifically chosen behavior.


57 posted on 08/31/2014 6:54:19 AM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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