
Harisan Unais Nasir
Bioethicist and Research Assistant Professor at the Centre for Biomedical Ethics, NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine
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Sep 24, 2026
Insurance Discrimination
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12:44SineadHOST
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Harisan Unais NasirGUEST
But, okay, so two things here first, right? We don't want to inflate the term discrimination.

Harisan Unais NasirGUEST
But there are people who think, well, whether it's discrimination or not, or discrimination or differentiation or not, what matters really is that is this being done permissibly? Like, is there a good reason to do this, right? I do think that discrimination has a...

Harisan Unais NasirGUEST
group level valence to it so the way i see discrimination is that there is some group level valence rather than a moral valence i think i think the the common interpretation is that discrimination has a moral valence and differentiation does not i think that might be mistaken i think discrimination has a group level valence to it or differentiation can be on the individual level so that's just my thoughts i don't know if i'm going too far with this um But you're right, there are some philosophical traditions that say that the term discrimination should be reserved for only things that are morally wrong, clearly morally wrong.
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18:42JamesHOST
Could you just give us a very short spiel about why people might believe that? Because that clearly goes against current practices for the most part.