Originally Posted by
Packrat
The medical needs to be the same for everybody. Tighten up the requirements on the basis of age is discriminatory. Tighten up the medical and you might be surprised how many YOUNG people can't pass.
It's not discrimination... older people are closer to death and have many more things wrong with their bodies in general. Just like younger people lack experience and thus wisdom about decision making because their frontal cortex isn't completely formed. PC culture has zero place in safety.