• Red_October@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    14
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    edit-2
    7 hours ago

    Your Gloves comparison is pretty flawed, though.

    We don’t require everyone to wear a pair of gloves at all times. We don’t put glove data on legal forms, we don’t use gloves to classify a critical element of our sense of self. We don’t make changing your glove type illegal, costly, or incredibly difficult. We don’t make getting 4 or 6 finger gloves illegal. We don’t force people with 6 fingers to get one chopped off. We don’t exclude people who are missing a hand entirely from society. We don’t publicly demonize people with 4 fingers.

    Yes, the proportion of people impacted is small, but the impact to those people is not. We can’t just call it “Good enough” because it works for 99% of the population when the 1% it definitely doesn’t work for is being absolutely ruined by it, especially if the exceptions that serve that small population are being systematically eliminated so that their existence is either suffering or criminality.