Star Citizen developer must pay disabled ex-worker $34,200 in return-to-office discrimination case

[WhiteLeaff]

Oops! Anxiety disorder is a recognized mental illness, and under the ADA (Americans With Disabilities Act), a person with it receives the same protections as any other disability.

If a person with autism, anxiety disorder, or *any* other illness can't perform a job satisfactorily due to that condition, they're not entitled to sue.

What a misguided comparison.

You're attempting to draw a parallel between an innate, incurable condition like autism and a completely normal condition like anxiety, often worsened by an individual's struggle to manage daily life. This just reflects the broader decline of American society; at this rate, any common human difference that challenges this generation could be pathologized. Resorting to coping mechanisms like drugs and food becomes a destructive escape route, marking a path of no return due to a childhood conditioned to embrace weakness.

 

[Endymio]

You're attempting to draw a parallel between an innate, incurable condition like autism and a completely normal condition like anxiety

Oops again! I'm not the one "drawing the parallel". The US federal government has already stated the two are legally equivalent ... as have many other nations.

I personally disagree that -either- condition should receive special protection under the law. But then this ne'er-do-well would have had no grounds to sue Star Citizen.

 

[WhiteLeaff]

Oops again! I'm not the one "drawing the parallel". The US federal government has already stated the two are legally equivalent ... as have many other nations.

OMG. The government said I'd better believe it.

Both fit exactly what I said, governments also say you can be an Apache helicopter. It all makes sense within weak populist governments. Continue as a non-thinking being, you're doing so well.

 

[xiroinfinity]

What a misguided comparison.

You're attempting to draw a parallel between an innate, incurable condition like autism and a completely normal condition like anxiety, often worsened by an individual's struggle to manage daily life.

An anxiety disorder is not the same as occasionally being anxious about something. Or do you also believe that being depressed on occasion is the same thing as clinical depression? Yet you imply you're a "thinking being"? Ironic.

Not at all surprising to see uneducated gamers who've never contemplated empathy in a forum about workers rights. Truly we humans are not machine enough to keep our corporate overlords happy, and it seems there are many willing to lick their boots all the same.

The man earned a pittance for a disability lawsuit from a company that doesn't need defending. British gamers' reputation precedes them once again.

 

[Endymio]

Truly we humans are not machine enough to keep our corporate overlords happy, and it seems there are many willing to lick their boots all the same.

Anyone who uses the phrase "corporate overlords" never progressed beyond the college-freshman "pass-the-toke-around" mentality.

The man earned a pittance for a disability lawsuit from a company that doesn't need defending.

He didn't "earn" anything. He received exactly $34,200 more than he was entitled.

And no one here is defending a particular company. We're defending an ethical concept -- and one essential to modern society. When you learn what that concept is, you'll have taken the first step out of that sewer of moral relativism.