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Broadly, your argument sounds like "people shouldn't become voluntarily disabled because society isn't very good at accommodating disabled people". I feel like
by philh 10y ago
Broadly, your argument sounds like "people shouldn't become voluntarily disabled because society isn't very good at accommodating disabled people".
I feel like we'd become better at accommodating disabled people if there were more of them. And that would be good for people who don't have a choice about their disability.
As an example, "large screens for fat fingers" also sounds good for people with poor motor control.
- viraptor 10y agoSure, we'd adjust - we'd have to. But that can be said about every possible change. The level of oceans raises 5m - we'd also adjust. It doesn't mean it's something that makes sense to prepare for right now. It's not like we don't accommodate disabled people because we hate them. It's because it needs serious redesign everywhere. If every other person became voluntarily disabled today's cities would become unusable. It would likely have a social split between people moving out to suburbs and flat towns and active people who can use existing dense infrastructure. It would have high impact on taxation to support the change. It would have ripple effect on everything. Now, would this be a net positive change just because we also improved life for those naturally disabled?