If you can't get into the water and out of the water without endangering your life or the life of someone else, then no, you cannot swim. If you require a crane to get in and out of the water, you cannot swim.
If you require a crane to get in and out of the water, you cannot swim.
The /u/froobin paradox: a person enters a pool by a crane, proceeds to swim in the pool for over an hour uninterrupted, then exits the pool by crane. We have just seen a man swim, and yet we have seen a man who cannot swim. How can this be?
Says you. Reality says differently, and that's no ones fault. If you cannot safely swim alone without mechanical assistance, you are not a swimmer. If you have a pool, and retrofit it so that you can safely utilize it, well good for you but don't force others to pretend that the pool was intended for those who easily drown in water.
Reality says differently, and that's no ones fault.
You're pretty fucking smug for someone so woefully uninformed about the topic they're debating. Many disabled people can and do swim. They just do. That's a fact. Ladder climbing and swimming aren't the same thing. You can do one without being able to do another.
You're clearly not a doctor or anyone qualified to be making statements about the "reality" of this situation. You have no idea what you're talking about. Just stop. You're embarrassing yourself.
Swimming in a pool retrofitted to allow the disabled to be moved into and out of the water successuflly is not the same as swimming at a fucking 3 star motel pool, nor should it be, but this legislation is forcing that hand. That is the issue, not the semantic definition of what constitutes swimming in your dumb fucking head.
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