[nabs-l] Philosophical Terminology

[T. Joseph Carter]

Well said, David.  That was the biggest lesson the Colorado Center hoped 
to teach people like me with a lot of vision in certain circumstances.  We 
still need to know how to work without it, and there really isn't much of 
a difference between having some and not having any.

I do think you have perhaps projected a bit on Hannah that was not in her 
message, though.  She said simply that she doesn't understand why a person 
would allow a person to believe they could see nothing.  I agree to an 
extent.  How many times have people accused me of being "not really 
blind"?  Better to explain it, even if it's inconvenient, I think.

Joseph

On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 11:45:12AM -0600, David Andrews wrote:
> At the risk of offending you -- I think your message and analogy are  
> revealing.  To me you are saying it is better being visually impaired  
> then totally blind.  You are obviously uncomfortable with someone  
> thinking someone is totally blind when they might not be.
>
> I would say that it is not better being blind or visually impaired.  They 
> both are conditions with good and bad and we move forward from there.
>
> I used to have some vision and considered myself lucky and tended to de 
> vide the world into "us" and  "Them."  then I lost the rest of my vision 
> and became a "them" and found out there wasn't that much of a  
> difference.
>
> Dave