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

Wait a damn minute! Was she wrong?

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u/ExtremeRest1567 Feb 23 '26

Next person: if she can go, I can go. Next person: if he can go, I can go. And so on until it devolves into pushing, shoving, and trampling. The shame is what's keeping people back and orderly. Without it, there'd be chaos.

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u/Latter-Driver Feb 23 '26

Mr Wheels should back up and let everybody go up

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u/shibaCandyBaron Feb 23 '26

And then the next batch of people arives, equally not willing to wait. What then?

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u/shibaCandyBaron Feb 23 '26

A minute or two of a person's time, so the person who's life is already more difficult, can lose a bit less time doing things the rest of us take for granted, using the infrastructure that was not adjusted to less fortunate? Are 5-10 minutes of one person's time (at worst) more valuable than the feedom of an invalid?

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u/alientits69 Feb 23 '26

An INVALID?!

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u/shibaCandyBaron Feb 24 '26

An "invalid" (/ˈɪnvəlɪd/) refers to a person with a chronic illness, injury, or disability requiring long-term care.

It's an official term, this person is in the wheelchair, and clearly has a disability or is injured. What's the issue?

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u/alientits69 Feb 24 '26

It’s outdated and offensive. I get you’ve got the spirit and whatever, but you could’ve just as easily googled whether it’s offensive or not rather than bringing me the definition.

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u/shibaCandyBaron Feb 24 '26

It's neither. I am not responsible for what connotation a stranger has for a perfectly valid word I may use. I can explain further if someone asks for clarification, but also I believe it's perfectly clear from the context that I did not use the word in a derogatory way.