According to some combination of today's Guardian, the Equality and Human Rights Commission and the United Nations, one in five British people are having their rights eroded because they are disabled. This including almost half the people of pensionable age.
A figure which strikes me as twaddle and which will do no favours to people who really are disabled, as the rest of us will just get cross rather than putting our hands in our pockets.
Maybe the people involved ought to spend some quality time in countries which really do have problems. On the ground, not in fancy SUV's swanning around from hotel to safari.
The next day: perhaps the anthropologists who coined the acronym WEIRD'os for people like us had a point. 'People from Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic societies'.
Reference 1: The enduring enigma of reason – Catarina Dutilh Novaes – 2018. My source for the weirdos.
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