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Originally Posted by wodin
What? They won't let the visually impaired ride a horse?  'Twould seem that would be safer than walking. After all, horses can see.   |
Technically, I am allowed to ride a bike.
I won't, however.
Not because *I* am the one who'd miss things because of poor eyesight, but because of the heaps of idiots around that miss things because they drive too fast, or do utterly stupid things.
Someone with normal sight can often see those things happening from a distance or out of the corners of his eyes, but I can't. Therefore I'm afraid I won't be able to react fast enough to the stupid things *others* do.
I'm all for exciting and crushing experiences that leave you a changed man who looks at the world from a different viewpoint, but being run over by a truck and then looking at the world from a wheelchair is not one I care to have.