Asymmetric Military

Wow, that's a headline grabber. What could that be? They make people with the wrong chromosomes go to the back of the chow line?

No. The incredibly biased headline explains:

For more than 20 years, the armed forces have held a policy that specifically denies disability benefits to servicemen and women with congenital or hereditary conditions. The practice would be illegal in almost any other workplace.

There is one exception, instituted in 1999, that grants benefits to personnel who have served eight years.

God bless the soldiers who suffer this way and maybe the Army (or us?) should take care of them just as a way of honoring them, but the article misses one important point. Should somebody be answerable for something that isn't their fault? If I hire somebody to fix my roof and he falls because he's acrophobic, am I responsible? It seems a way of shifting the blame for natural defects (and I don't mean that to be pejorative- just descriptive) from nobody (you can't sue nature) to somebody with money.