Come across as discriminating on someone based on their background. Being Middle Class and White is just as controllable as being born handicapped or black.manic_depressive13 said:I know right. All these retards, niggers, and broads are insisting on making life difficult for us. Why do things have to be so difficult for healthy, white, upper middle-class men?
Indeed they are friend, indeed they are. What is a mental disability however? And does it confer the same access to special entitlements as a physical handicap?maddawg IAJI said:You're right, we do have some things like that in today's age. Problem is that they're very expensive and still don't have the same feel or look as normal legs. Not to mention that they're severe problems with them. Some of the largest being severe power supply problems and material problems. And even then, what do you do with a mentally disabled person? They count as Handicapped too ya know.BlueMage said:No, I'm pretty sure gingers were soulless before South Park made mention of that fact. Just sayin'.maddawg IAJI said:Because people can get out of the ghetto and dye their hair. People without the use of their legs can't get out of the chair.BlueMage said:Why? Sure, it sucks, but no more so than being born a ginger, or in the ghetto. Why should you receive special treatment because of a twist of fate?blushmoe said:If my Legs didn't work i would want special fucken treatment!
Edit: Also, how the hell is being born a ginger even in the same sentence as being born in the ghetto? I get it, gingers have no soul. Hardyharhar. *Sigh* Can you please stop copying South Park. That joke wasn't funny to begin with and people have used it to death.
Incidentally, I notice no-one's making mention of external augmentation, ie, exo-skeletons for locomotion. It's no longer the case that someone born without the ability to walk will never walk. What a wonderful age we live in!
Autism? ADD/ADHD? Aspeger? Dyslexia? Down Syndrome? You're telling me that people who have these disabilities should be forced to struggle and most likely fail due to being born with stuff like this?BlueMage said:Indeed they are friend, indeed they are. What is a mental disability however? And does it confer the same access to special entitlements as a physical handicap?maddawg IAJI said:You're right, we do have some things like that in today's age. Problem is that they're very expensive and still don't have the same feel or look as normal legs. Not to mention that they're severe problems with them. Some of the largest being severe power supply problems and material problems. And even then, what do you do with a mentally disabled person? They count as Handicapped too ya know.BlueMage said:No, I'm pretty sure gingers were soulless before South Park made mention of that fact. Just sayin'.maddawg IAJI said:Because people can get out of the ghetto and dye their hair. People without the use of their legs can't get out of the chair.BlueMage said:Why? Sure, it sucks, but no more so than being born a ginger, or in the ghetto. Why should you receive special treatment because of a twist of fate?blushmoe said:If my Legs didn't work i would want special fucken treatment!
Edit: Also, how the hell is being born a ginger even in the same sentence as being born in the ghetto? I get it, gingers have no soul. Hardyharhar. *Sigh* Can you please stop copying South Park. That joke wasn't funny to begin with and people have used it to death.
Incidentally, I notice no-one's making mention of external augmentation, ie, exo-skeletons for locomotion. It's no longer the case that someone born without the ability to walk will never walk. What a wonderful age we live in!
And, um, yeah, a wearable exo-skeleton won't look the same as someone with functioning legs. Mostly because of the metal everywhere. Still, what's a little metal? I'm pretty certain that if I'd lost the use of my legs, I'd sign up to be a guinea pig for precisely such testing.
I know this is in vain, but I'm going to make the effort, because it might make your roommate's life a little easier if you had a proper understanding. Alas, I must rely on your ability to empathise and sympathise, qualities I have found to be deficient even in people who don't have a medical excuse, but then I'm a cynical arsehole just like your flattie.EeveeElectro said:It's Aspergers but I think he makes most of it up to be honest. He's a complete arsehole, and his disability makes him that much more of an arse. He had a job that lasted about an hour because he got into a massive argument with the first person he served so they sacked him on the spot. He just doesn't like being told to do something that involves effort.Vault101 said:there are some forms of autism I think that pretty much make you unable to function in the real world/without some help, obviously there are varying degrees of it, in the case of your roomate i dont know his situation, he obviously doesnt need that much if he can work
If some people can use it as an excuse, they will. I'm sure there's plenty of Aspergers sufferers on here that can hold down a job, maybe not as easily as others but the fact is, they make the effort.
Ah ha! So, you agree I should be entitled to special privileges due to being born with a disability! Well, you're consistent at least, I'll give you that.maddawg IAJI said:Autism? ADD/ADHD? Aspeger? Dyslexia? Down Syndrome? You're telling me that people who have these disabilities should be forced to struggle and most likely fail due to being born with stuff like this?BlueMage said:Indeed they are friend, indeed they are. What is a mental disability however? And does it confer the same access to special entitlements as a physical handicap?maddawg IAJI said:You're right, we do have some things like that in today's age. Problem is that they're very expensive and still don't have the same feel or look as normal legs. Not to mention that they're severe problems with them. Some of the largest being severe power supply problems and material problems. And even then, what do you do with a mentally disabled person? They count as Handicapped too ya know.BlueMage said:No, I'm pretty sure gingers were soulless before South Park made mention of that fact. Just sayin'.maddawg IAJI said:Because people can get out of the ghetto and dye their hair. People without the use of their legs can't get out of the chair.BlueMage said:Why? Sure, it sucks, but no more so than being born a ginger, or in the ghetto. Why should you receive special treatment because of a twist of fate?blushmoe said:If my Legs didn't work i would want special fucken treatment!
Edit: Also, how the hell is being born a ginger even in the same sentence as being born in the ghetto? I get it, gingers have no soul. Hardyharhar. *Sigh* Can you please stop copying South Park. That joke wasn't funny to begin with and people have used it to death.
Incidentally, I notice no-one's making mention of external augmentation, ie, exo-skeletons for locomotion. It's no longer the case that someone born without the ability to walk will never walk. What a wonderful age we live in!
And, um, yeah, a wearable exo-skeleton won't look the same as someone with functioning legs. Mostly because of the metal everywhere. Still, what's a little metal? I'm pretty certain that if I'd lost the use of my legs, I'd sign up to be a guinea pig for precisely such testing.
And you still haven't touched on what I said earlier in regards to Exo skeletons. Most powered exo skeletons take too much energy too run, are too heavy, can severely damage user by just being used and probably won't be perfected for quite a while. A disabled person can't make use of something that isn't open to the public yet.
Thank-you. That works well, although I would say the first is still discrimination, but it is reasonable and should not be changed. The word does not inherently say that it is bad, but when done where not necessary or unreasonably... problems. And handicapped people have it a lot harder than the rest of us, little things like handicapped bays help.BanicRhys said:As I see it, catering to the special needs of handicapped people (the parking spaces) is not discrimination.
Giving a handicapped person an advantage in any real competition (job interviews, contests, sports etc) is discrimination.
I was talking about behaviors towards others dude, like how if a kid with some kind of mental handicap goes and kicks the shit out of a kid who doesn't, and that child retaliates, the child with the mental handicap won't get a punishment while the child who doesn't will. It's biased and frankly, stupid. Letting them get away with things is just going to reinforce the behavior, not help them.Kefo said:Actually some of them can't learn. An example would be someone with Prader-Willie, you can try to teach them to eat 3 times a day and normal sized meals but that wont change the fact that their brains are telling them that they are starving all the time and to keep eating regardless of what it is.Rin Little said:Oh for the love of the gods dude... Are you serious? Just because they have "learning difficulties" doesn't give them the right to go and hurt others and not be reprimanded for it. They CAN learn, even if it's a slow process, they can still learn.
Calm down and give us a reason. And be nice: I'm handicapped, after all.uzo said:Well ... looks like there are some real fuckin' TOOLS in the thread today.
Seriously ... are you actually trying to justify your being a rude, selfish cock-muncher by pointing and saying 'I'm jealous of a retard!!' If you don't have any kind of awareness beyond your lonely little life where you sit around and complain about those lucky lucky handicapped people out there that cost you a 20 metre walk every time you go shopping and have the AUDACITY to be incapable of functioning at a level you take for fucking granted, then you have no fucking place in humanity. Exit stage left, please. And take your fucking opinions with you, because there are few situations where an opinion can be wrong but sweet Jesus you managed it.
Fucking hell ... jealous of the handicapped ... ? What the fuck is wrong with you?
Fixed that for you. Because no-one uses the stairs anymore.gigastrike said:Hell yeah it is! They should have to get out of their wheelchairs and go up those 10 storeys by lift like the rest of us!