Comments on: It’s a question of choice, or is it? http://transabled.org/thoughts/its-a-question-of-choice-or-is-it.htm Talking about Body Integrity Identity Disorder - Just another disability! Sat, 10 Jan 2009 02:08:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7-beta2 hourly 1 By: rorschach http://transabled.org/thoughts/its-a-question-of-choice-or-is-it.htm/comment-page-1#comment-97 rorschach Fri, 20 Oct 2006 11:13:47 +0000 http://transabled.org/thoughts/its-a-question-of-choice-or-is-it.htm#comment-97 I think that there is still a difference, though quite slight. Mainly when it comes to life and death situations. You're knocked out of your chair, there's a grenade, minus the pin of course, near you. There's also a perfectly safe wall to hide behind if only you got up and ran. For the paraplegic, running completely is not an option. You would be stuck between a grenade and a hard place. Even if you've already thought it out, there is still that lingering option. Sorry to split hairs there Sean, I just couldn't help myself. I think that there is still a difference, though quite slight. Mainly when it comes to life and death situations. You’re knocked out of your chair, there’s a grenade, minus the pin of course, near you. There’s also a perfectly safe wall to hide behind if only you got up and ran.

For the paraplegic, running completely is not an option. You would be stuck between a grenade and a hard place. Even if you’ve already thought it out, there is still that lingering option.

Sorry to split hairs there Sean, I just couldn’t help myself.

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