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by swamp40 999 days ago
Being blind is dangerous. Let people decide for themselves what level of risk is acceptable to them.
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Being blind isn't necessarily dangerous at all.

Lots of blind people have their homes set up with everything carefully arranged and no hazards. They prepare food, clean their house, commute to school, to jobs, and to appointments via familiar routes with no dangerous intersections, or they might use buses, trains, and Uber / Lyft just like millions of other people who aren't blind.

Being blind can be full of annoyances and frustrations, but I think it's a stretch to say that it's "dangerous".