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Originally Posted by sirbruce
I would assume it depends on the disabled person's personal beliefs. Obviously some would want a federally-mandated program that ensured access to certain works according to government regulations; others would prefer a free market solution...
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Awesome. So you're saying that those who are disabled should either shut up and stop whining about the fact that nobody is willing to do anything for them unless they pay extra as a penalty for being blind, or be accused (by you) of being a "socialist"? Why exactly should they care what you think about them?
The whole point of affirmative action legislation for blind (and otherwise disabled people; however, those aren't really pertinent to this discussion) is that corporations/companies/yada frequently refuse to make their establishments/products/etc. available. If the market worked, there wouldn't need to be legislation.
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Originally Posted by sirbruce
If this were truly the issue, then the solution is simple: pass a law *requiring* the publishers to provide books in some format for the blind. The law requires the restaurant owner to provide disabled access; why not the publisher?
Instead, the proposed law does not do that, but simply allows others to copy that book for the disabled and even profit via it, to the detriment of the author and the publisher. Where is the sense in that?
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Of course it doesn't. Do you have
any idea what it would cost to have to provide accessible copies of any and every title?
The whole point is that this way, supply can be demand-driven, through the actions of non-profits that talk more directly to and with the people they represent etc.
Also, restaurant analogies are worthless here.