...to me it seems that proposing a future where disability can be treated / cured / undone / avoided is very different to saying that people in the present with disabilities are 'not okay'.
Exactly. It is bordering on claiming that new cures should not be produced because it would be like to force disabled and ill people to conform to the norms of society which sounds ridiculous to me.
Also, good point above re the rise of new disabilities in the future. Yes, I think so too. This issue is mostly ignored in speculative fiction. New diseases and forms of disabilities even though this topic offers so many different possibilities. I can think only of few examples when a new disease was introduced to a story.
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Date: 2010-06-13 02:59 pm (UTC)...to me it seems that proposing a future where disability can be treated / cured / undone / avoided is very different to saying that people in the present with disabilities are 'not okay'.
Exactly. It is bordering on claiming that new cures should not be produced because it would be like to force disabled and ill people to conform to the norms of society which sounds ridiculous to me.
Also, good point above re the rise of new disabilities in the future.
Yes, I think so too. This issue is mostly ignored in speculative fiction. New diseases and forms of disabilities even though this topic offers so many different possibilities. I can think only of few examples when a new disease was introduced to a story.