Most people take the right to independent living for granted. It’s not something they really think about. In some cultures, independence may mean being able to live on your own; in others it may mean living as an equal among peers.
For a person living with a disability, independent living can’t be taken for granted — and it can be hard to make others recognize that it’s actually a human right. Finland’s Kalle Könkkölä has been a pioneer in raising this awareness.
Könkkölä is driven by the knowledge that if a society is permitted to continue hiding people with disabilities, it will continue to forget them. That knowledge has shaped his career in politics and as an activist.
Könkkölä was elected to the Finnish Parliament in 1983 and served there until 1987. As a member of the minority Green Party, he helped to help make Finland’s trains accessible to people with disabilities. But his presence was a statement by itself.
“It was the first time someone sitting in a wheelchair was in Parliament, and that raised awareness of disabilities very much,” he said
Why is this ‘them’ and ‘us’ so important? Why is it so necessary to differentiate people from each other? Maybe it is so important because we cannot hate them if they are a part of us. They must be separated from us to rationalize our hatred towards them. Differentiation fosters hatred. It makes us forget that, despite our differences, we are all human. We are all part of the same species: Homo sapiens.
I believe in the system of world government. I believe that it can be implemented and if implemented, it will dissolve the most latent yet most potent discrimination of our time. Through my years in college, I wish to dig deep into this theory of mine and explore governance systems that have persisted and reasons why they persisted. I will try and make each and every detail of my model so strong and feasible that I can start to implement it as soon as I graduate from college.
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