The Disabled Research Paper

The Disabled and the Least Advantaged
It might be easy to think of a more miserable group of people in our society, but their misery is certainly the undesirable kind. In the world we live in, people think of disability as an individual fault or flaw, rather than a condition created by the society. Disability is branded as inadequate, deficient and incomplete: an imperfection at best, an affliction at worst. People with physical or mental disabilities have been regarded as social and moral inferiors. They have been rejected for job positions regardless of their academic or technical qualifications. They have been treated as mechanically impotent and powerless or that employers and clients are just not very comfortable with their presence in …show more content…
A society where the life prospects and future of any people depends on their physical “defects” which they sustained at birth or by some other circumstances is not a fair society and it does not display the qualities of a society in which “free” and “equal” persons chose the principles. A society where necessary extra resources are not provided to the least advantaged and educational disparities have been in existence for generations is not a just society. In a free economy, such as in America, certain groups of the society have larger pieces of pie, which is the result of the inequality of opportunity and resources. Rather than redistributing resources, it can only be just if the economy can grow a larger pie so that the least advantaged like the disabled can have a fair slice of the pie in order to be elevated for the dungeon of poverty. All in all, under the Rawlsian system, the social principles that govern the American society is