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I'd much rather have a mentally ill person with treatment flying the plane than without!

You don't get to choose "no mental illness" because of the bad incentives of hiding them!

Those don't have to be the only two options. You can also criminalize hiding your mental illness as a pilot while incentivizing self-reporting via sufficiently generous disability insurance.

If you criminalize hiding your mental illness, you can be sure that people will hide it! Even if the alternative has some money attached.

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