WHY DOES OUR SOCIETY TEND TO REWARD THE HANDICAPPED RATHER THAN ACKNOWLEDGE THEIR LIMITATIONS?
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COMMENTS:
I reject your observation. Pointing to extreme cases and making a generalization from that is very, very dangerous. As they say: You don't tear down the house because the drain is clogged up. I know and work with many people with disabilities and to say they are rewarded is preposterous. It is often difficult to get the smallest accomodation made for someone with a handicap. There are very few of these bizarre cases out there. I would estimate at least 99% are legit. Furthermore, I doubt anyone with a handicap or disability would want society to decide what their limitations are. Most people with handicaps are productive members of society who achieve great things. Just because someone is in a wheelchair, blind or deaf, does not mean that they cannot accomplish the same things as anyone else. I was made much more aware of the limitations society unknowingly (usually) places of people when I was temporarily unable to walk without assistance. Had I been confined to a wheelchair or become deaf permanently I would have very angrily resisted any attempt to pigeonhole me.
FiddleFaddleOnLSD- I acknowledge that I’m only talking about the most extreme cases. I didn’t actually mean that we should treat people with legitimate handicaps as though they were less than human. I just find that the idea of treating people as heroes because they pretend to have a handicap (in order to avoid responsibility for crimes they committed and in turn come off as heroes) is prevailing more and more and that these people not only do society an injustice but the handicap people that feel degraded by an idea like this becoming so ingrained in the American psyche.
And I agree my generalization was insensitive and I apologize. Sorry.
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