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

[Robert A Hansen]

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-------- Original message --------
From Glenn III <gmoore3rd at gmail.com> 
Date: 10/13/2014  8:47 PM  (GMT-06:00) 
To Robert Hansen <roberthansen33 at yahoo.com>,NFB of Illinois Mailing List <il-talk at nfbnet.org> 
Subject Re: [il-talk] Fw: Video - Breaking News Videos from CNN.com 
 
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.duke-medicine&sr=fb101214pkg-blind-man-sees-for-first-time-in-33-years9pVODlink&video_referrer=http%3A%2F%2Fm.facebook.com%2Fl.php%3Fu%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fcnn.it%252F1qgcG0e%26h%3DEAQEBeRRH%26enc%3DAZPL17ryweqCZMlWq8nAnEWMyyMniplSG4bkKFLIM1iWdr53Yajfn6bnmKeNYxlWiTJhLVA4GcGceWtYL6_Olxc8 

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