Re: Disability versus ability
8, the comparasons you make are wrong and flawed in many ways. Firstly, not being able to fly etc cannot be considered on the same grounds as having a disability. Flying, never has been, and probably never will be, a normal human ability possessed by anyone. Nieether is it necesary to perform any daily task normal people do. Sighted people needing help isn't the same as a disabled person needing help iether. We need help because a part of our body, that should have been functioning isn't, and we are in a situation requiring use of that faculty. However, a sighted relative needing help on a computer is a fundementally different situation. Most people don't know everything to an advanced level. Your relatives likely don't care about computers, or want to know anything about them beyond surfing the net or playing games. Similarly, some blind people might not care about music, or coding to devote the time for advanced knowledge. However, I can garantee, if an executive order was issued that said all companies must relieve employees who aren't power windows users within a year, everyone suddenly would be massively good at computers, and would be competing with each other. In essence, the sighted person chooses not to learn or know something, and can easily learn something if they want to. But the blind person has a fundemental defesit that is independant of efort, and cannot be corrected.
Camlorn, I honestly thought I was the only one understanding the reality of blindness. What people like yourself and me are saying here isn't that people should jump off a cliff or hang themselves because they realize they have many more limitations that are perminent. What I am saying is that people should simply accept these, not deny them, and move on. But the reality undoubtidly is that blindness is a very severe disability. It probably easily is the one of the top 5 most severe disabilities anyone can have, when you analyze the daily impact, loss of sensory information etc. Also, blindness combined with another sensory disability or serious medical condition probably would rank in the top 3. Blindness basicly rewires the brain, making it much more dificult to understand spacial concepts etc, but also more importantly, 70% of the information sighted people get comes through their eyes. I don't think anyone who is born blind truly understands the enormity of that.
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