Re: [at-l] Handicap access already there

[Jennifer Delia Sawyer <jdsawyer%40bu%2Eedu>]

At 08:57 AM 10/30/97 -0500, Robinson, Nancy wrote:

>Well, I have news for all -  life is not fair!!  Some of us are whole and
>others are not.  UNFAIR!  Shake your fist at God and bemoan your fate or
>make the best of it.  

And if pack animals _are_ allowed on the trail to aid the physically
challenged/handicapped, will _we_ not have to shake our fists at God and
bemoan our fate or make the best of it?  

Well, I'm not going to beat the dead horse that fell off the cable bridge
crossing.  I think great points were made on both sides, which is everything
I hoped for when I asked Jim "why?".   Maybe this is a cop-out...I started
the whole thing and never gave my own views.  But it's all been said.  The
question remains:  who should decide who can use public land and who cannot?
I don't think there's a solid answer to that, but rather one that is forever
changing as our society changes.  Change isn't easy, and it always results
in somebody thinking it's unfair.  

Oh, and the other thing -- all lawyers aren't evil.  I wouldn't be comitting
the next three years and $100,000 if I thought so...

:) Poohbear

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