> Most people are unable to care for themselves. We depend on others to help provide food and water for us, accommodation, etc. Most of us won't stay alive if we're isolated from the support of other people we depend on. Some autistic people with more extreme cases not only can't provide their own food, but also can't put on their own clothes.
Did you mean to say "Most [autistic] people" in the first line? Because if you didn't, then your comment seems like a non sequitur to me. Of course most people can take care of themselves. If they didn't, then society would collapse, as there would be more people requiring care than those able to give care.
This discussion isn't about the interconnectedness of the modern world. Yes, we no longer live in a hunter-gather society, and most people probably couldn't farm their own crops or hunt their own game, but that's not what we mean when we're talking about people who are unable to care for themselves. What we mean is someone who is unable to earn money, who cannot navigate purchasing food at grocery stores, who cannot arrange their own accommodation.
I live in Manhattan -- because there is no game to hunt here and no available land to farm, would you truly paint me as someone "unable to care for themselves" simply because I have to subsist on food from grocery stores and restaurants that is trucked in from farms in areas with less expensive real estate? Similarly for water that comes from the municipal water supply?
Did you mean to say "Most [autistic] people" in the first line? Because if you didn't, then your comment seems like a non sequitur to me. Of course most people can take care of themselves. If they didn't, then society would collapse, as there would be more people requiring care than those able to give care.
This discussion isn't about the interconnectedness of the modern world. Yes, we no longer live in a hunter-gather society, and most people probably couldn't farm their own crops or hunt their own game, but that's not what we mean when we're talking about people who are unable to care for themselves. What we mean is someone who is unable to earn money, who cannot navigate purchasing food at grocery stores, who cannot arrange their own accommodation.
I live in Manhattan -- because there is no game to hunt here and no available land to farm, would you truly paint me as someone "unable to care for themselves" simply because I have to subsist on food from grocery stores and restaurants that is trucked in from farms in areas with less expensive real estate? Similarly for water that comes from the municipal water supply?