[nabs-l] A common-sence legislative idea

[Jedi]

Jim,

First of all, someone attempting to passs a driver's license exam with 
poor eyesight isn't going to make it. Unfortunately, governments are 
too willing to provide restricted licenses in those muddy cases where a 
person just barely meets the visual requirements. In that way, 
accidents related to blind drivers is just as much the government's 
fault for allowing said person to pass (even under special 
circumstances) as it is for the citizen. As to those who become blind 
but still carry a valid license, that license will eventually expire 
anyway thus eventually preventing someone from legally driving. In the 
meantime, I hate to say it, but an accident may be exactly what's 
needed to bring someone out of denial and alert them to the fact that 
they need to find alternatives to trying to live life as a sighted person.


Original message:
> Hey all,
> The following is not going to sit well with some of you so let me 
> preface it with some personal background to set the context:
> 1. By 2005 I was legaly blind with RP.
> 2. In the summer of 2007 I bought a car.
> 3. In summer of 2008, I wrecked said car, with a passenger, because I 
> did not see the sharp turn ahead. Fortunatly, the accident was 
> injury-free, but could have just as easily been a fatal roll-over.

> That said, my idea:
> Blind people, contingent upon recieving any government services which 
> they qualify for,(in part, or in whole) as a result of being blind, 
> must permanatly surrender their drivers license.

> I know some will say this is cohersive, and it is.

> Some will say it prevents blind people from recieving essential 
> services, it does; but, no one has the right to endanger the life of 
> another, and, if a person chooses to do so, that person does not 
> deserve the support of society or it's government.

> And lastly, some will make a free-choice arguement. To them I would say 
> blindness isnt a choice, its a fact.

> This is one of those "father knows best" type situations where what is 
> truely best for the individual is percieved by that individual as negitive.

> As it seems likely that it is the younger blind people who are most 
> inclined to make choices similar to mine, what we are really talking 
> about here is saving the next generation of blind people from injury, 
> death, or legal troubles.

> As negitive as this may seem to some blind people, if it saves even one 
> life, blind or sighted, then it was worth it.

> Thoughts?
> Jim

> "Ability is of little account without opportunity."

>       |
>           -Napoleon Bonaparte



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REspectfully,
Jedi

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