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Originally Posted by PKFFW
I think you'll find that with attitudes like marks', a lawsuit is often the only way a disadvantaged group like blind people can get any concessions.
Yes the blind will need assistance in order to stand a chance of simply receiving the same standard of education as a sighted person. For a university to then actively give an added advantage to sighted students, without any attempt at giving any sort of comparable tool to the blind is simply illegal under Anti-Discrimination laws.
Again, the suit had nothing to do with ensuring no one was allowed to use the Kindle. It was about ensuring that the Universities met their obligation of giving equality to the blind. If the Universities and Amazon could not come up with a way to do that then that is an indictment on them, not on the ACB in my opinion.
Cheers,
PKFFW
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Legality or no legality, the macro-level utility of the United States overall has been impaired by this lawsuit and similar lawsuits, however marginal that might seem. This case is particularly nefarious as it is an instance where the education of society, something of great importance, has been actively impaired by an interest group that is only 0.3% of the population. I might reconsider if this percentage were 100 times larger.
As a general rule, the schools themselves, and society at large, should be allowed FREEDOM to make optimal decisions--to sort based on preferences and utility.