Aimee Mullins brings to attention an assumption that society has about disabled people or how society defines them. For the majority of the people in society, they understand that the disabled do exist and that there is some specialty that they are accorded with. It is in that assumption that society has created a norm to define the ins and outs that challenge the disabled and made them believe that it is normal to feel disabled and to be accorded special treatment. However, I agree with Mullins that society has created a language that has stalled evolution and, for that matter, civilization by letting language define the adversity of the disabled. Language definition from the dictionary should not be made powerful enough to believe and stand by it. As an able paraplegic in the sports, Mullins purely comprehends the struggle that people who are different undergo to survive. From the onset of their challenges, it should be drilled to them that the challenge is their adversity. Adversity being a normal phenomenon that we should embrace and adapt to, we run by Darwin’s evolution theory. A theory that we humans are not intellectual or strong to survive, but we do so because we transform and adapt to the adversities presented to us. Therefore, language and belief about disability should be demystified from an academic domain to have people face and embrace adversities in society and help civilization move forward.
Listening to Ruth Chang talk about hard choices helps break it down to a level that a person can understand what a hard choice is. As a philosopher, she has had her fair share of challenges in making a choice, especially when choosing to of being faced by hard choices to the level of choosing a career in law or philosophy. A hard choice is one in which no alternative is better than the other making it hard for an individual to settle for either of the alternatives. Therefore, they settle for the less risky because the unknown is dangerous. However, doing so is giving in to the norms of scientific values, which state that there are only three outcomes: Values are either greater, smaller than or equal to. It’s the same assumption people make when making a hard choice, then make the wrong decision because of relying on reasons dictated to them. Instead of being ruled by the scientific approach, people should accent to the norm that values (alternatives) in hard choices are not greater or lesser but at par. The situation should solicit people to formulate their reasons and make a valid choice based on independent reasoning.
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