But a society that respects the principle of diversity might also respond to your experience by seeking to enlarge its notion of what a full human life is. Dan Goodley has argued this in his 2021 book Disability and Other Human Questions: societies that are ableist also have a tendency to set up a “self-congratulatory kind of self-sufficient humanness” as their general ideal. (One thinks of muscly Vitruvian Man again, standing alone.) Such a society might make less provision for differing needs in other areas of life and perhaps incline toward a harsher economic model based on “self-reliance”
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