[namwen]

Those example are really unrelated though. One is a law against unfairly ruling out potential employees, the other is about what to charge a driver who has a statistically higher chance of being in an accident. I agree that the insurance companies should take into account a driver's other assets(?) besides age, but it probably shouldn't be law.

[gambiting]

It is quite related. It's double standards. In the first case it's about "let's not discriminate young people, their lack of experience does not really matter!" and in the other "let's discriminate against young people, because they are statistically more likely to cause an accident". Well, would it not be also "statistically more likely" that a person with less experience will be not as good at a job as a person with more experience?? Only very recently it has been made against the law to discriminate against males when it comes to car insurance - even thought it is statistically proven that men cause more accidents than women. Yet this is against the law, and age discrimination isn't. If that's not double standards, then I don't know what is.