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From: Mary.Otten@p0.f1089.n261.z1.fidonet.org (Mary Otten)
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Subject: superior
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Date: 25 Jun 91 15:43:27 GMT
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[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

I think the basic problem in this discussion of whether one method of
travel or doing anything else is superior or not is not whether the
methods are better, but whethethe people are better. It has struck me
that at least some people who so ardently defend the ways we have
adapted to loss of sight as being equal to the methods used by sighted
people are confusing the methods with the people. That is, it seems to
me that traveling with sight is, in fact, superior to traveling without
it. That does not mean that the blind person is inferior to the sighted
person, or that he can't get from point A to point B. But it is harder,
on average, for him to do so. Do you honestly in your heart think that
your methods of getting around are equal to those of the average sighted
person? I, for one, do not.

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