[il-talk] Fw: Video - Breaking News Videos from CNN.com

[Leslie Hamric]

I agree with Glenn.
Leslie

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> On Oct 13, 2014, at 8:47 PM, Glenn III via il-talk <il-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> I wish I could have viewed the video, but couldn't get through the "200
> second" long leading advertisement. so I'll adleb. I don't think the eye
> surgeries is the point. I don't begrudge anyone who receives a treatment
> which restores their sight. The topic of what eye conditions a person has
> or what treatments etc. really comes up pretty rarely--in fact, that
> generally is more the case in meetings of sighted organizations who focus
> on subjects around blindness. This may be because, I believe, we don't
> limit our focus on blindness itself, but on life, at it's best, despite and
> in sync with blindness, and that blindness is not a strange condition to
> poke and prod at, but just one of many aspects of a normal, and whole life.
> The point is, that I don't think that some treatment that may reverse a
> condition causing blindness for some is any problem, but the problems we
> focus on are how to secure rights, quality of experiences, and the highest
> fulfillment of life with blindness, whenever it is someone's reality--plus
> to show that it is also society's reality a reality to have blind people in
> it, in a meaningful way. If a treatment for some comes about, cool, but
> what we should focus on is that if a treatment is promoted, it should not
> be ignoring that there may be huge cost or risk simply because of a
> distorted or fearful apprehension about the alternative of being blind, and
> that regardless if someone will or won't become blind or remain blind for a
> decade, or a day, every moment, everywhere a blind person lives, there's no
> excuse for not experiencing, equality, fulfillment, purpose, and value
> within society, while being blind.
> 
> -Glenn III
> 
> 
> On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 4:31 PM, Robert Hansen via il-talk <
> il-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
>> I am not sure what I think of these eye surgery things anymore. Here we
>> are doing what we can to change what it means to be blindlow vision and
>> these doctors keep doing this stuff and it ruins it for our movement.
>> 
>>> On 10/13/2014 9:48 AM, Lin H. via il-talk wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message----- From: Debbie Navarrete
>>> Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2014 11:26 PM
>>> To: Linda Hendle
>>> Subject: Video - Breaking News Videos from CNN.com
>>> 
>>> http://www.cnn.com/video/standard.html?/video/tech/
>>> 2014/10/09/pkg-blind-man-sees-for-first-time-in-33-years.
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