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Would you say that building wheelchair ramps is also a waste of time, because you can't please everyone all the time, and they're only a small percentage of the

Would you say that building wheelchair ramps is also a waste of time, because you can't please everyone all the time, and they're only a small percentage of the population?

_carbyau_ 4y ago
You are arguing shades of grey. 1. You only have so much effort to spend. 2. You won't be able to please everyone with it. IE result. Sure, for any large enough building (significant effort anyway to spend!) expecting a reasonable chunk of the population through the door a wheelchair ramp(decent chunk of populace affected) should be du jour. Hell, it is a wheelchair ramp not rocket science, I'd be happy to see them in a home building code for anywhere 2 or 3 steps are used. Little extra effort over the alternative (stairs) and get a result. Alternately, I love my mum but it is unreasonable to expect the world to bend to meet the sheer levels of disconnection-from-reality that mental health paranoia can go to. We can't treat everyone like they are Truman from the Truman Show. People have to be able to cope with change. When they can't, it is sad. But the world will keep changing anyway.
- forgotmypw17 4y ago
  "The world" may keep changing, but "my applications" will continue to bend over backwards to accommodate every scenario I can imagine.
  - _carbyau_ 4y ago
    I'm glad people like you exist and want to make the world a better place for everyone you possibly can. I suspect you will continue to find ways your applications are not received in the context you hoped. But is also an opportunity to do better which it seems you might enjoy. I also think you won't be financially competitive in the larger world. And while I'd love a world where this doesn't matter, money makes the world go around until humanity as a whole can figure out how to do better. So I don't think many will follow your path. I honestly wish you the best to make it all work. For my own part, I will continue to try and leave contexts I am involved in better than I found them.

Would you say that building wheelchair ramps is also a waste of time, because you can't please everyone all the time, and they're only a small percentage of the population?

_carbyau_ 4y ago

You are arguing shades of grey. 1. You only have so much effort to spend. 2. You won't be able to please everyone with it. IE result. Sure, for any large enough building (significant effort anyway to spend!) expecting a reasonable chunk of the population through the door a wheelchair ramp(decent chunk of populace affected) should be du jour. Hell, it is a wheelchair ramp not rocket science, I'd be happy to see them in a home building code for anywhere 2 or 3 steps are used. Little extra effort over the alternative (stairs) and get a result. Alternately, I love my mum but it is unreasonable to expect the world to bend to meet the sheer levels of disconnection-from-reality that mental health paranoia can go to. We can't treat everyone like they are Truman from the Truman Show. People have to be able to cope with change. When they can't, it is sad. But the world will keep changing anyway.

forgotmypw17 4y ago
"The world" may keep changing, but "my applications" will continue to bend over backwards to accommodate every scenario I can imagine.
- _carbyau_ 4y ago
  I'm glad people like you exist and want to make the world a better place for everyone you possibly can. I suspect you will continue to find ways your applications are not received in the context you hoped. But is also an opportunity to do better which it seems you might enjoy. I also think you won't be financially competitive in the larger world. And while I'd love a world where this doesn't matter, money makes the world go around until humanity as a whole can figure out how to do better. So I don't think many will follow your path. I honestly wish you the best to make it all work. For my own part, I will continue to try and leave contexts I am involved in better than I found them.