Against disabled rights
From CroziervisionWiki
I should begin by saying that I am not against the disabled having the same rights as anyone else. What I am against is them having greater rights than anyone else, particularly in areas such as transport. I do so because:
- this inevitably leads to regulations, which I am against
- these regulations inevitably impose costs on the rest of us eg rail costs, enforcement bureaucracies
There are also some other reasons which I am reasonably sure about but am not quite there yet:
- they encourage people to think of themselves as victims
- they make people less polite (see here for an example)
- they "crowd out" the alternatives. By this I mean that when the disabled have "rights" backed by legislation people find themselves less inclined to volunteer to help.
