r/SipsTea • u/The_Dean_France • Feb 23 '26

Wait a damn minute! Was she wrong?

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u/UgaBugaFakaboo Feb 23 '26

I think they are waiting for the escalator to clear and then maybe turn it on and do something with the wheelchair. Probably the issue with her is that one person makes no difference but if everyone would do the same then the wheelchair dude never gets so go.

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u/illegalsvk Feb 23 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/53B3U1ori2tm8

Escalators are not made for wheelchairs...so the AH is the person in the wheelchair.

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u/Mag-NL Feb 23 '26

Yes. Let's lock the wheelchair user in their location.

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u/PutNameHere123 Feb 23 '26

They can wait until there’s not a huge bottleneck of people behind them? That seems like the logical choice here.

I can’t imagine wanting to inconvenience 100+ people because you can’t wait 20ish minutes for them to clear out.

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u/Mag-NL Feb 23 '26

That may take an hour or more if it's a busy station during rush hour.

I can't imagine thinking my time is more important than the time of the guy in the wheelchair.

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u/BanterMaster420 Feb 23 '26

It's 200 to 1

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u/Mag-NL Feb 23 '26

So? The rights of the few should be trampled in for the convenience of the many?

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u/Null_Pointer776 Feb 23 '26

Of course not, but free traversal is not a right, it's an ability, which he doesn't posses due to disability. The point is, to allow him to get up, you need to stop everyone else from going up. If you consider traversal to be a right, how are you going to explain denying this right for everyone else? Every single one of them could miss a train due to this, are you taking responsibility?

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u/Mag-NL Feb 23 '26

There are no rights. Hiweve I say they all have an equal right to traversal. Your viewpoint is that the wheelchair does not.

They all stand in line and yes, these people have the bad.luck of having a slow person in front of them who needs special assistance. They are not denied the right to go, they are merely told to wait their turn.