[nabs-l] A common-since legislative idea

[Rania]

Sometimes I am asked for a drivers license so I just give them my photo ID.
Rania,
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Beth" <thebluesisloose at gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [nabs-l] A common-since legislative idea


Blind people should have some form of ID, and the problem I have with
the surrender of a driver's license is this: everyone asks for a
"driver's license."  Not necessarily a Florida Identification Card.
It has a number and that on it like a license, but stll not a license.
Beth

On 3/31/09, Nathan Clark <troubleclark at gmail.com> wrote:
> anybody who is blind should not be driving.
>
>
> On 3/31/09, Jason Mandarino <blind.subscriber at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I have had a few friends that are legally blind, but were not in a
>> position
>> of degenerative eye sight. Of course they were of the large print
>> category,
>> but never the less unattractive glasses and additional equipment as they
>> would put it.
>>
>> My only issue with this is that it is yet another thing based on
>> generalizations. I understand the point, but I thin that statements like
>> these am what corner us into our own issues. We are easily caught up into
>> what works for one or a few, and forget that blindness is just as
>> individualized as personality. I am completely for the safety of others,
>> but
>> even when it comes to elderly people and their driver's license, perhaps
>> it
>> would be more appropriate to have them do something more than a written
>> test
>> and a brief eye exam.
>>
>> Unfortunately, there is no expectation to even have driver's education in
>> Georgia, so in my opinion the established safety nets are the true issue
>> not
>> more policies.
>>
>> Mandarino
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>> Behalf
>> of Jim Reed
>> Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 2:02 PM
>> To: MAB List
>> Subject: [nabs-l] a common-sence legislative idea
>>
>> 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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