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It prevents you from jobs like airline pilots, the rationale being that placing someone potentially suicidal in control of a plane full of people isn't a good idea. The rationale doesn't really make total sense but you can see why they'd think that way.
except that airline pilots end up depressed and untreated instead of just not depressed.
But depression isn't a thing normal people experience! It's only the mentally ill and we don't want them at the controls.. /s
Oh yeah definitely, that's a major problem that's specifically created by this policy.
Nope, can't see it at all.
Then you lack imagination. It's actually happened and not that long ago that a pilot intentionally killed himself and took the entire plane with him.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanwings_Flight_9525