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Understanding Equality for Disabled Individuals

Equality means equal rights and treatment for all individuals, while disability refers to a physical or mental condition that substantially impacts normal daily activities. For centuries, disabled people have faced prejudice similar to racial minorities. Arguments for affirmative action for disadvantaged racial and gender groups apply even more strongly to disabled people, as mere equal opportunity will not be enough where disability prevents equal participation. By considering disabled interests equally and imagining their perspective, we can determine appropriate accommodations, though determining solutions will be challenging. While assistance should enable full independent living, it is social conditions rather than physical limitations that truly disable people.

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Understanding Equality for Disabled Individuals

Equality means equal rights and treatment for all individuals, while disability refers to a physical or mental condition that substantially impacts normal daily activities. For centuries, disabled people have faced prejudice similar to racial minorities. Arguments for affirmative action for disadvantaged racial and gender groups apply even more strongly to disabled people, as mere equal opportunity will not be enough where disability prevents equal participation. By considering disabled interests equally and imagining their perspective, we can determine appropriate accommodations, though determining solutions will be challenging. While assistance should enable full independent living, it is social conditions rather than physical limitations that truly disable people.

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Equality and Disability

 Equality means equal rights and treatment to all


individuals

 Disability means a physical or a mental condition which


has a substantial and long-term impact on your ability to
do normal day to day activities.
 For centuries, disabled people have been subjected to
prejudice, in some cases no less severe than those
under which racial minorities have suffered.
According to Peter Singer,
 Many of the arguments for affirmative action in the
case of those disadvantaged by race or gender apply
even more strongly to disabled people.
 Mere equality of opportunity will not be enough in
situations in which a disability makes it impossible to
become an equal member of the community.
 By giving equal consideration to the interests of those
with disabilities, and empathetically imagining
ourselves in their situation, we can, in principle, reach
the right answer; but it will not be easy to determine
what exactly, in each particular situation, that answer
should be.
Contradictions
 It is one thing to argue that people with
disabilities who want to live their lives to the
full should be given every possible assistance in
doing so.

 it is social conditions that disable them, not


their physical or intellectual condition

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