Originally posted by Paradude:
Perhaps someone like you Sly is considered "less" than anyone else, I can understand that, but for the vast majority of us, we live as equals, no matter how much your pathetic paranoid mind likes to believe otherwise.

Originally posted by Sylvana:
Perhaps, some day, we will be treated with equal justice, but that will never happen if disabled people themselves believe the oppression we suffer should never be debated.

Originally posted by ParaDude:
Some people probably do view us as less valuable...

Originally posted by flicka:

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Originally posted by ParaDude:
Some people probably do view us as less valuable...

I think a majority of sci injured consider their bodies less valuable than normal. Otherwise the hope for a cure would not be so popular.

Originally posted by ParaDude:
That has nothing to do with our value as human beings.

What is the reaction when a healthy 27 year-old sci injured dies? OOOOOOOOO how tragic! At least he's free from pain & suffering!

Originally posted by Greg:
I beleive we are valued as much as we "attempt" to be valuable.

I find this with my work clients, people that provide services at my home, my kids teachers at school and even those "selfish brat" friends of my teenage kids. If you are willing to put yourself out there, not only are you dealt with as an equal, but are also usually given brownie points for doing it with a disability.

Originally posted by Sylvana:
The fact that seniors die everyday at the hands of others, does not lessen the fact that when someone kills a disabled person, the crime is viewed as somehow less reprehensible because the disabled life is deemed to have less value. Informing society and reacting to the outrage is not fear mongering; it is simply educating the public. Perhaps, some day, we will be treated with equal justice, but that will never happen if disabled people themselves believe the oppression we suffer should never be debated.

Originally posted by ParaDude:
Are those suffering from cancer now considered "less" by society?

Originally posted by Greg:
If you are willing to put yourself out there, not only are you dealt with as an equal, but are also usually given brownie points for doing it with a disability.

Originally posted by flicka:

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Originally posted by ParaDude:
Are those suffering from cancer now considered "less" by society?

Physically, yes. Their value as a human being is not less, but physically, yes. The illness has made them physically less than 'normal'.

Their bodies are not whole. Neither is the body of those living with sci.

Originally posted by Sylvana:
Perhaps, some day, we will be treated with equal justice, but that will never happen if disabled people themselves believe the oppression we suffer should never be debated.