> We need to see disability as a cost to society we must pay, not a failure of individuals which is more or less what were treating it. You frame this as a bin

> We need to see disability as a cost to society we must pay, not a failure of individuals which is more or less what were treating it. You frame this as a binary choice, but it's clearly both. I understand the desire to destigmatize and focus on systemic problems. But I really hate when health issues are framed as only societal/systemic problems. Doing so is factually incorrect and worse, robs individuals of their sense of agency. One of the main failure modes I see of progressivism (which I am otherwise happily a member of) is treating all problem's as society's fault. And then progressives wonnder why they feel so dispirited and defeated all the time. Maybe it's because we adopted a worldview that gives us no sense of agency over our own lives? (Of course, one of the well known failure modes of conservatism is blaming individuals for everything.) The right answer is that it's both. Like the serenity prayer says, do the stuff you can and accept the stuff you can't. Both are equally important.