> Or consider health insurance. Do we really want young people paying the same premiums as 80 year olds? Health insurance is a perfect example of intentionally

> Or consider health insurance. Do we really want young people paying the same premiums as 80 year olds? Health insurance is a perfect example of intentionally restricting factors that may be considered to make a more fair system. Forget age. Most systems don't require a sick person to pay more than a healthy person even if the sick person is nearly guaranteed to take out more than they contribute. > Perhaps you think there's a negative societal byproduct of making a certain group of people feel marginalized/targeted. Does wanting to reduce this justify clear resource wastage, such as in the airport security example above? The extra security is the resource wastage. The flip side of "we can do less for this group" is "we can do more for that group". Also, your comment here heavily implies you think that resource waste is obviously more important that making large groups of people feel marginalized. To be frank, even from the most sociopathic economic lens, I do think that exhibiting behaviors that perpetuate racist/religious/political/ageist/sexist/sexual orientation biased ideas have significantly higher negative externality costs to society. Especially those that implicitly convey that an outsider group is dangerous.