At 09:44 14/09/1999 +1000, you wrote:
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>> On 13 Sep 99, at 9:56, Lennard Davis wrote:
>> > Does anyone else know of cases in
>> > which people with disabilities are seen as having "less worth" than
>> > others?
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>And contrary to all that, there was a case in Australia where a young man
>was awarded $$$$$$millions because he acquired very severe brain
>injury in an auto accident (involving no other vehicles and he was drunk).
>This was based on his projected earnings as a major television actor and
>star. He could have been another Mel Gibson they said. *biting my
>tongue* At the time he was very average in terms of his acting portfolio.
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>One could say this was an expression of valuing the person he *was* prior
to his disability when he had a societally valued role. Anyway the worth
of a person expressed in money is of course hardly what many people think
about when thinking about the worth of a person. Or do they...?
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Erik leipoldt
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