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%HANDICAPPED PERSON'S RIGHTS 780105
It is in th best interest of each society to afford
each member of the society the opportunity to fulfill
their potential to the maximum extent possible. Doing so
involves setting priorities regarding the allocation of
scarce resources needed to facilitate potential
fulfillment. People with handicaps will often need more
assistance in order to fulfill their potential than will
those without handicaps. Even so, it is not wise to
lavish scarce resources upon handicapped persons to such
an extent as to severely deprive normal persons of their
opportunities. In the final analysis the total welfare of
the total community must play a central role in setting
priorities. An appropriate allocation of scarce resources
will make it possible for handicapped persons to be self-
sufficient, rather than be dependent upon friends,
relatives, or community social services. Community
investments in helping handicapped persons become
productive members of society can be investments with
significant long-term returns to the community. Such a
consideration is an important one in deciding how much to
lavish upon handicapped persons, and what rights to grant
handicapped persons in light of their handicaps.
Rights should be granted to handicapped persons in
the interest of promoting the long-term welfare of
communities as a whole. Failing to keep in mind the
purpose of granting rights to handicapped persons---will
tend to occasion perversions in the perception of those
rights. Such rights should not be looked upon as the means
to: a lazy life, a life of luxury; or a life without
growth intellectually, emotionally, or spiritually.
Rights should help members of the community fulfill their
potentials---and should not be the occasion for failure to
fulfill their potentials. When citizens use rights
granted to them as a means of avoiding their working on
fulfilling their potential---then th rights and the means
to granting those rights must be examined.
Granting some people certain rights inevitably costs
somebody something. Care needs to be exercised to see
that there is justice in the distribution of the costs of
granting rights. Such costs pertain to: governmental
spending, administrative bureaucracy, crowded court
dockets, delayed justice, reduced independence, etc.
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