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Originally Posted by Livia
I would love to have every plane, every pub, every business in the whole world wheelchair accessible. And if you can think of a way to pay for that... I'd be interested to hear it.
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When these places are built, they're built to be able to accommodate people, so I think it's maybe just a case of changing a mindset about what requirements are needed for 'people' to access these places. Historically, disabled people were treated as less than an 'ordinary' person and they were shut away and ignored, so places like this didn't need to be built with them in mind. So although a lot's changed for the better in terms of general attitudes and equality laws etc, we can still improve further. If we start building all these places with the mindset that disabled people should be as free to access them as anyone else, then yes the initial costs would be higher, but not so much to make it an impossibility, and the long term benefits to disabled people and society as whole would be massive and far outweigh those initial costs imo.
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