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Alternately, vulnerability is part of our humanity and we shouldn't aspire to be made of metal. Capitalism puts people at risk, exploits vulnerabilities and uses them as a means to deny people's humanity. Vulnerability isn't the enemy, capitalism is. https://twitter.com/MrAhmednurAli/status/1309136643903893505
"In philosophy, vulnerability describes the ways in which people are less self-sufficient than they think...If we think people are self-sufficient, we’re less likely to think past injustices have any effect on their present lives."
https://ethics.org.au/ethics-explainer-vulnerability/#:~:text=In%20philosophy%2C%20vulnerability%20describes%20the,to%20live%20our%20best%20lives.&text=Vulnerability%20isn't%20a%20new%20idea.
https://ethics.org.au/ethics-explainer-vulnerability/#:~:text=In%20philosophy%2C%20vulnerability%20describes%20the,to%20live%20our%20best%20lives.&text=Vulnerability%20isn't%20a%20new%20idea.
I'm really shocked to see so many disability activists buy into this liberal nonsense about it somehow being 'radical' to deny vulnerability. This is the a talking point that sounds all very cool I guess - if you don't reflect on it very deeply.
"Vulnerability does not mean much for our contemporary morality. It is antithetical to our emphasis on individualism &rationality; it requires that we attend to the body& to our feelings. Yet only by recognizing the depth & breath of our vulnerability can we confirm our humanity"
I’m really ok with being called and being a vulnerable person (never ok with “the vulnerable”). It’s taken me years and years to fully embrace that part of my humanity and now the edgelords have decided it’s bad & want to deny me it.
The secret is that we’re all vulnerable - that to be human is to be vulnerable. We need a society that it’s safe to be vulnerable in not to ban the word vulnerable.
Problem is they use vulnerable to mean poverty but poverty is a different ‘v’ word, it’s violence.
Problem is they use vulnerable to mean poverty but poverty is a different ‘v’ word, it’s violence.
