Last week the House of Representatives voted 414 to 1 to outlaw genetic discrimination. Employers and insurance companies cannot choose their customers and employees after learning the results of genetic testing. For example, companies cannot discriminate because they learn that one of their employees or customers has the gene which may lead to cancer. This sounds like a fairly normal and fair way of doing things, but the author brings up a few controversial points. Why do we hire certain employees who have talent in a particular area? That is unfair. But then again, talent is discrimination and we wouldn't have talent if we hired someone less-talented over someone more-talented.
The article also states that really there is not much difference in inheriting a lot of money or in inheriting great genes. There is not much difference in what you can do in life; you have advantages either way.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment