Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!yale.edu!yale!bunker!hcap!hnews!129!90!Gary.Petraccaro From: Gary.Petraccaro@f90.n129.z1.fidonet.org (Gary Petraccaro) Newsgroups: misc.handicap Subject: Re: Hotel Rates Message-ID: <16553@handicap.news> Date: 28 Jun 91 16:02:00 GMT Sender: wtm@bunker.isc-br.com Reply-To: Gary.Petraccaro@f90.n129.z1.fidonet.org Organization: FidoNet node 1:129/90 - Post Road Inn, Greensburg PA Lines: 32 Approved: wtm@bunker.hcap.fidonet.org Index Number: 16553 [This is from the Blink Talk Conference] -> In a message to David Andrews <06-10-91 14:21> William Wilson wrote: -> -> WW> should be mugged -> WW> rather than accept the sighted perpetrater's misguided -> WW> sympathy because I'm going to pick a nitt, or is it a Knitt. No, this isn't a put up job for those of you who always believe that Willie and I act in concert. Anyhow... What's with this Misguided? What in hell is misguided about someone who shows what might be the last vestige of human feeling by not mugging a handicapped individual? It used to be we treated women with deference, old people with forebearance and provided aid when needed--these were the ideals anyway--how we were supposed to act. Now, we're supposed to substitute a "screw-'em-all" attitude? For what? So we can all pretend that we're equal because we're all at the mercy of conditions which Hobbes described as "nasty, brutish, and short"? Btw, for those who avoided Tom's point about rape, it was right on target. His question has it right, are we so bound up with this issue that we have come to ask about mugging, rape, or theft, or even murder in terms of civil rights? Damn, I can hear it now. "Kill me, oh, please kill me! I'm blind and just as good as anyone else. You can do your bit to help promote the handicapped by just killing me." Of course, the next step is to murder, rob, or rape, to prove equality. Of course, in doing so, we couldn't just prey on the non-handicapped world, now, could we? -- Uucp: ..!{decvax,oliveb}!bunker!hcap!hnews!129!90!Gary.Petraccaro Internet: Gary.Petraccaro@f90.n129.z1.fidonet.org