Bad Move (Score 1)

This is probably the worst decision any company's made in a long time. Basically every aspect about us is caused by genetics, from factors irrelevant to one's ability to perform well at a job (race, gender, sexual orientation) to ones that have a profound impact on that ability (intelligence, memory, social skills). If genetic discrimination is banned, then publishers won't be able to deny book offers to bad writers; after all, some people are predisposed to be better writers than others. Sports teams won't be able to reject athletes who run slowly; that's a genetic trait as well. Or, in the case of IBM, they won't be able to reject an engineer who can't do math, as that might have a genetic cause. And the list goes on and on. I see where IBM is coming from; it seems only fair to not discriminate on the basis of things that one can't control. But if we carry out that noble idea to its full extent, the whole economy falls apart.