The one thing that seems true to me in the paper is the quote from a disabled person ,Laura Hershey:
I've encountered people who, neverhaving tried it, think that living life with a disability is an endless hardship. For many of us, it’s actually quite interesting, though not without its problems. And the majority of those problems result from the barriers, both physical and attitudinal, which surround us, or from the lack of decent support services. These are things that can be changed, but only if we as a society recognize them for what they are. We’ll never recognize them if we stay so focused on curing individuals of disability, rather than making changes to accommodate disability into our culture.(Laura Hershey)
4 comments:
T.E.?
T.E. is thought experiment which are sometimes very fanciful in Philosophy and no link to empirical reality. S.F. and bad S.F. at that
Your first paragraph really made me laugh. It is time for the philosophers to start shoving the thin men for a while.
Tom:
Philosophers, as the man said - 'they are young therefore abstract and cruel'.
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