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Blacks have a higher chance of diabetes, should a business be allowed to not employ blacks because they drive up the costs on businesses to provide benefits to

Blacks have a higher chance of diabetes, should a business be allowed to not employ blacks because they drive up the costs on businesses to provide benefits to its employees? Your argument is asinine. Men and women are unable to choose their gender, just like they are unable to choose the colour of their skin, thus it is the logical conclusion that neither should benefit from a choice they did not make.

Tichy 17y ago
To be honest, yes, I think if somebody has a known risk, I should be allowed to take that into account. If SOCIETY wants equality for everyone, then society should pay for it. I don't think diabetes in blacks is such a high factor (never heard of it before), but if it were, then society could create some kind of insurance to compensate the risk. Same goes for gender - I don't say that they shouldn't have equal chances, but it is the task of society to pay for that, not of individual companies. I think making companies pay is just an artifact of the mentality that says "companies are evil, they are rich and just exploit us poor bastards. They have so much money that we can just take from them whatever we want". Now maybe there are some companies that are like that, but I don't think it holds for the average small to medium company.