that’s not a problem with trains it’s a problem with unsustainable land use

the whole point of firearms is that it’s deadly force. you can’t fire one at a person without being ready to take their life because it’s always a likely outcome.

Discrimination being tied to unjust, prejudiced, unfair, etc. treatment is part of all the dictionary definitions I found:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/discrimination

https://www.britannica.com/dictionary/discrimination

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/discrimination

https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095721450

https://ahdictionary.com/word/search.html?q=discriminate

Not to take away from your main point at the end, but that’s just not what discrimination means. Discrimination in this context isn’t just making a decision between choices, it’s when that decision is made unjustly or based on prejudice.

So yes, it’s wrong to put profits ahead of people’s well-being. But the question was whether insurance companies’ policies to not pay out for causes of death that are strongly correlated with poor mental health unjustly treat people with mental health issues.

To be honest, I think that’s an interesting point, because while I similarly find the whole concept of health and life insurance abhorrent, I think these policies are in place so people don’t take their own lives for the sake of the insurance money for their loved ones. In that respect, they may save a handful of lives, and you could argue that makes it a just policy. I’m not sure I 100% buy that argument either, I just think there’s more to the question than just whether insurance companies are generally moral.

medium rare

gross.

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Cars. Not only are they getting bigger, with both higher weight and worse blind spots making them more dangerous, but the new technologies they are coming with make me uneasy. The touch screens to control everything from climate control to radio are bad enough, but now they even have social media apps installed! Plus all of the driving aids like lane departure assist up to “autonomous” driving means drivers are paying less and less attention to the road.

you’re like almost getting at the social model of disability, but framing it in a way that invalidates people’s lived experiences of having a brain that works fundamentally differently from the norm.

I used to feel this way until I was bitten by a horsefly. I’d rather have 10 mosquito bites than this

Word art memes are back

I thought DS9 had some great time travel episodes tbh. Past Tense and The Visitor I think are top tier episodes, plus some fun antics between Far Beyond Stars (if that counts as time travel) and Trials and Tribble-ations.

first game I got into was Pokemon Blue, but Guild Wars is what turned me into a gamer

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