The child was not dehumanized. Defective means not working up to full potential. Can this be said about the mind of a mental retarded person? Absolutely. It is not their fault or their choice to be born mentally retarded but it cannot be denied that their mind does not work properly. Otherwise, why would their condition have a name, or why would they be educated in separate classes from other children in school?
Defective is a little bit of a rude term, but for heaven's sake, there is no need to attack the OP.
A mentally retarded child has no place in an area with dangerous machinery that can harm and kill other human beings, despite how much the father wanted to make his son happy. There is never an excuse to endanger the lives of others.
If you would care to note in my first post, and all my successive posts I stated it was irresponsible to let the kid operate machinery, of course. But if the father had been more responsible and made special arrangements, as per special needs children, no accidents need to have occured.
As you can also note in my previous comments I have become rather closely tied to the disability rights movement; and I meant to be outspoken, not inflammatory. Thank you for being polite, I tend to get a little bit snappish once the argument degrades to insults. And to my ears, calling another person defective is dehumanizing in that it could easily make one with a disability feel that way, as though they're on a lower level than we are. It's like calling a kid in a wheelchair broken; it may go over ok in the right company, but said in the wrong place or at the wrong time, it could be devastating.
My bfs brother has a hard time communicating because of his palsy and he's been through some shit for it; so I hope you can understand my position a bit better here
IIN that my colleague brought his mentally handicapped son to work?
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PC = politically correct.
The child was not dehumanized. Defective means not working up to full potential. Can this be said about the mind of a mental retarded person? Absolutely. It is not their fault or their choice to be born mentally retarded but it cannot be denied that their mind does not work properly. Otherwise, why would their condition have a name, or why would they be educated in separate classes from other children in school?
Defective is a little bit of a rude term, but for heaven's sake, there is no need to attack the OP.
A mentally retarded child has no place in an area with dangerous machinery that can harm and kill other human beings, despite how much the father wanted to make his son happy. There is never an excuse to endanger the lives of others.
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If you would care to note in my first post, and all my successive posts I stated it was irresponsible to let the kid operate machinery, of course. But if the father had been more responsible and made special arrangements, as per special needs children, no accidents need to have occured.
As you can also note in my previous comments I have become rather closely tied to the disability rights movement; and I meant to be outspoken, not inflammatory. Thank you for being polite, I tend to get a little bit snappish once the argument degrades to insults. And to my ears, calling another person defective is dehumanizing in that it could easily make one with a disability feel that way, as though they're on a lower level than we are. It's like calling a kid in a wheelchair broken; it may go over ok in the right company, but said in the wrong place or at the wrong time, it could be devastating.
My bfs brother has a hard time communicating because of his palsy and he's been through some shit for it; so I hope you can understand my position a bit better here