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In response to Oliver Kendall's 'Oli's Being Bad Blog' at http://olibeingbad.blogspot.com/2008/02/are-we-really-being-good.html (from http://olibeingbad.blogspot.com/)
I personally think it’s society’s way of adjusting to disabled people’s needs. I mean, who are we to say that someone who has lost one of their senses or limbs, etc are ‘disabled’ surely they are just disabled in the view of our society. It’s just the way we’ve structured the world that means that ‘disabled’ people are literally unable to get around like others do. At the end of the day it we didn’t keep making buildings hundreds of feet in the air than disabled people would be able to get around just as well as others as they wouldn’t have to have ‘disabled’ access. Maybe if we made the world so that it accommodates everyone, everyone would have the same ‘abilities’. I can see this is a near impossibility but perhaps it can be said that if this was the case you wouldn’t feel any different about helping a disabled person than you would anyone else.
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to stoke the fire a little more, but there is indeed an argument about self sufficiency that i feel needs to be put to the debate here.
initially, i am simply putting forward an abstract perspective here, so please dont chastise me for it if i cause anone any offense, it isn't intended!
anyway, if we look at the issue of being 'disabled' in the eyes of society, then surely we have to take into account the element of self sufficiency with which someone can maintain as having an advantage with if they are 'able bodied'. indeed, in the animal kingdom, if, lets say, a wolf had a broken leg, it would be far more likely that it would struggle to survive against the other wolves in the forest as it would not be able to hunt as effectively as the other more able bodied wolves there. this is an argument that puts weight behind the argument that 'disabled' people are not merely so because the status quo of society deems them so because they are different in some way, but they have been deemed so because whatever condition they have simply means they are 'less able' to carry out certain actions than others.
*we all have our disadvantages and disabilities, just some are more physically manifest and others less so. it matters not. we all all have our part to play and our role to fulfill. *
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