If you believe that only the “fit” should survive and the rest are excusable deaths, that’s eugenics. Every life is important. Every disabled person is worthy of life. Disability is part of nature. If you live long enough, you will become disabled. We’re all vulnerable and all valuable.
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Saying that the disabled are unfit and should perish is just lazy and callously cruel, as well as wasteful.
We can be better than that.
I think this is where the 'social model' breaks down, though. However much you design to accommodate, you still can't make the blind see, for example.
But we *can* design systems where being unable to see is less of a problem. Having talking crosswalk indicators, providing cheap/free rides to replace not being able to drive, interface improvements to computers to minimize the challenge of UI interaction, all reduce the cost of blindness
It's not going to be perfect, but it can be better, and it's not even usually that hard to come up with alternatives that are more accommodating.
We do that for the near-sighted with corrective lenses. I was nearly legally blind without my glasses before my LASIK surgery.
I'm short-sighted & wear glasses. I'm also autistic.
- the one "minority" group that we are all likely to join
-has no language, race, gender, poltiical, geographic bounds
-a part of the human experience
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They want to force non-viable pregnancies, ones that will require the best medical care if they are to survive, but have a heart condition at age 35, and you're just not worth all that medical care.
I may be short and schlubby, but I'm sure I can beat the shit out of a Neo-Nazi.
I may be autistic, but I forget it most of the time.
They said that Darwin wrote that communities with the most sympathetic members would flourish best and rear the most offspring.