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Discrimination is around things that an individual can't choose (religion being the weird elephant in the room). Fair or not, this isn't discrimination.

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In the UK, the Equality Act (2010) protects: age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership (in employment only), pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation.

Pregnancy, maternity, marriage, civil partnerships and gender re-assignment are usually chosen by individuals, not forced upon them.

Disagree on gender re-assignment, people don't choose to have gender dysphoria just like they don't choose sexual orientation.

I didn't mean to imply that people choose to have gender dysphoria, sorry if it came off that way.

Pregnancy and maternity are desired by the society as a whole. So they might receive some positive discrimination.

(Stress on might and some, probably still not enough in may rich countries to stop native population from shrinking.)

Many people can’t choose where they live either. Getting a visa to the US is a ludicrous process and even if they wanted to they maybe tied by family obligations.

But people don't choose to be rich or poor exactly either. As a general rule, discrimination is around things for which there's no choice. Having a choice over where they live or whether they are rich doesn't mean it's easy or practical. But that can't make it grounds for discrimination, even if unfair.

Ability to live anywhere in the world is a choice?

yes if you're a citizen of one of the US, CA, EU

TIL

You can't just live in the US as a reason living in the EU.

I don't think that rule holds in general. For another example besides religion, you can choose whether or not to marry interracially.

So, you think a software engineer in India can just "choose" to come and work in the US ?

Since when people chose where to be born?

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