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by precisioncoder 2054 days ago
It's always better to start your experiments at a low intensity in a controlled environment before ramping them up. As we've seen with the bird box challenge, a ton of people have been injured for attempting to live ordinary days with blindfolds on. Also the isolation and sensory deprivation aspects are actually more intense with reduced activity.

Each person has different limits and each experience outside of your comfort zone pushes their own personal limits further. I think it's good that people want to learn about what their limits are as well as challenging those limits.
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mlang23 2054 days ago
Guess what? A ton of blind people is being injured daily while trying to life alongside a bunch of mostly ignorant spoiled brats. Nobody writes a newspaper articles when I trip over a badly placed bicycle and ramm a part of it into my gut. But CEOs with a blindfold on sitting on their couches get to write about their experiences like it was something.
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precisioncoder 2053 days ago
That's true, and also unfair, however if believe if we are supportive rather than dismissive or aggressive towards these experiments regardless of who they come from then we can create a culture of encouraging people to try things. Many people may read his article and be inspired to try their own experiments, and even if they're low level they will increase empathy and consideration for blind people. We can't go from ignorant to perfect in a day, I believe we need to create a culture that leads in the direction that we want to go.
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wombatmobile 2054 days ago
> Each person has different limits and each experience outside of your comfort zone pushes their own personal limits further. I think it's good that people want to learn about what their limits are as well as challenging those limits.

That's not what the OP said he was doing. He said he was wanting to find out what it was like to experience blindness.

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s1artibartfast 2054 days ago
Experiencing blindness is different than trying to experience what life is like for a blind person.

None of their listed reasons for doing the experiment were related to gaining insight into the life of the disabled.

If that was the goal, I would agree it was a poorly designed experience.

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