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[quote=Anonymous]So how do we enforce to people with disabilities that they do not have the right to have the impairments of those disabilities.
How do we tell the blind person they do not have a right to not look where they are going?
How do we tell the deaf person that they do not have a right to not listen and respond?
How do we tell the non verbal child with autism that they do not have a right to not speak?
How do we tell the person with coprolalia that they do not have a right to have vocalizations?

For all of you phrasing this in 'rights' language and how he didn't have the right to have a vile outburst - how do we tell people their disability does not give them any right to have any impairments that define the disability?

Should they all be punished? A friend of mine is deaf and was in a situation where a police officer approached her from behind while she was walking and asked her to stop (apparently multiple times). She didn't hear it as she was deaf and the cop ended up tackling her and then wanting to charge with her refusal to obey orders and resisting. Do you feel that is fair as her disability does not give her the right to not listen to the cop and do what he tells her? That she doesn't get to not follow the laws and blame it on her disability? That she should have been apologizing profusely to the cop for not doing as she was asked? That he would have been right to arrest and charge her as her disability isn't an excuse or a cop out for bad behaviour?[/quote]

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