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Sometimes when you try to make one point you can get sucked into answering another, I did that with my post yesterday about disability access.
Like an idiot I allowed people to shift the focus onto the details in the link I provided rather than trying to keep the focus on the OP. It's not like I needed to defend a decision made by one judge and upheld by three more at appeal. I don't think I should have had to defend that decision either, but it appears to me that there are people on this site who are more than happy to put a price limit on personal choice and equality.
One thing did get to me, the charge that I have a chip on my shoulder, followed by one that I have a whole potato field on my shoulder. Technically both charges may be true, but not in the way the other poster intended.
I don't care about myself, I might not like being disabled, but I can manage. I don't like asking for help for myself, it took two PCSOs and a social worker getting involved before I would admit that I needed help to the RBL.
What I do care about are other people, that started a number of years ago, the details don't matter, but I learned first hand that society doesn't look after some people in the way it should. I got a chip on my shoulder for other people then, it is one that has kept on growing. I can't do a lot about many of the issues affecting other people that now matter to me, I can't give much to help them, I just don't have the money. I can't do much physically by going out to help them, but I can keep shouting for them.
Make all the accusations that you want, complain about the way that I try as many different angles as possible to get my message across. I'll just keep on going because you shouldn't put a finite financial value on treating all people equally. Each case should be taken on its own merits, on what is reasonable in that particular situation, on what can be done without putting people out of business or jobs.
The irony on the thread in question has struck me though, so many people sticking up for a bank. A bank that has been one of the worst offenders in the whole sorry financial saga of the last eighteen months, and now it has so much support here on Informed Consent when it gets slapped down for failing to carry out something it has a legal duty to do.
If it wasn't so sad it would be funny.
