Or we could stop thinking that having disabilities something worthy of insult. I mean this is simple to say hard to do. It's a nice first step to just listen to what a large number of people and their families have asked for quite vocally.
I know I have been raised in a culture steeped in prejudice and I will never be perfectly free of it myself, but I can do what's asked of me at least.
I don't know, part of it is that we confuse people being shortsighted/assholes/mean/careless etc. with mental illness. We confuse character flaws that are under an individuals control, with things that are NOT under our control.
But I think we can handel telling these things apart, and find better ways to describe human folly than by analogy to mental illness.
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Date: 11/8/11 17:17 (UTC)I know I have been raised in a culture steeped in prejudice and I will never be perfectly free of it myself, but I can do what's asked of me at least.
I don't know, part of it is that we confuse people being shortsighted/assholes/mean/careless etc. with mental illness. We confuse character flaws that are under an individuals control, with things that are NOT under our control.
But I think we can handel telling these things apart, and find better ways to describe human folly than by analogy to mental illness.