Should amputees be offended by prosthetics?

Courtesy Flush

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Wed Jan-12-05 07:42 PM
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Should amputees be offended by prosthetics?

Edited on Wed Jan-12-05 07:45 PM by kdsusa

I was browsing blogs today when I saw an entry on jeffandjanice.com regarding Google's policy of not allowing their ads to appear on websites for people with disabilities. Am I wrong, or is this really crappy?

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DemocratSinceBirth

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Wed Jan-12-05 07:45 PM
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1. How Would Amputees Walk Without Prosthetics?

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Courtesy Flush

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Wed Jan-12-05 07:46 PM
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2. If they lost an arm, they'd walk just fine :)

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Wed Jan-12-05 07:49 PM
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3. what if they lost a leg?

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Wed Jan-12-05 07:50 PM
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4. No amputees are not offended by prosthetics.

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Courtesy Flush

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Wed Jan-12-05 07:54 PM
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5. Well yeah, but my point was

Edited on Wed Jan-12-05 07:56 PM by kdsusa

Why should Google feel obligated to protect disabled people from information about disabilities?

Edit: I visited the site in question. It's not an informative site, but the question still applies.

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Wed Jan-12-05 07:56 PM
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6. this is a google policy?

this sounds fishy, ya might want to dbl chk with google on this.

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Courtesy Flush

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Thu Jan-13-05 10:17 AM
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11. I doubt they'd discuss it with me. Confidentiality, and all eom

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Courtesy Flush

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Wed Jan-12-05 08:26 PM
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7. Apparently this is a real-time conflict

I visited the site again, and it's being updated.

Gotta go. I've got to watch my DVDs so I can send them back to netflix

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Wed Jan-12-05 08:38 PM
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8. There are deaf people who are offended by cochlear implants...

so I would guess that it's possible.

Then again, the guy that I saw on the TV show was born deaf, so that might not be a perfect analogy. I think his reasoning was that his genetics caused him to be deaf and he was what he was - why mess with it? I remember that he was very much against his child (also born deaf) getting implants. The closest that I could relate to it was immigrant parents wanting their children to retain the culture of the "Old Country."

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Courtesy Flush

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Wed Jan-12-05 10:00 PM
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9. I've never understood that

I guess you'd have to be deaf to really understand it. It's like paraplegics not wanting to walk.

But who am to judge?

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Thor_MN

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Wed Jan-12-05 10:27 PM
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10. I thought the same.

I'll form a viable opinion once I'm faced with the situation - until then, I'm officially on the fence and listening to the people who are on both sides...

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